Hunger and famine

Readings

• [*] Singer, P. (1997). The drowning child and the expanding circle. New Internationalist, 289.
• [*] Andre, C., & Velasquez, M. (1992). World hunger: A Moral Response. Issues in Ethics, 5(1).

Useful resrouces

• http://www.worldometers.info/ http://www.stopthehunger.com/ - Two websites displaying statistics about the world in a "real-time" format See the figures related to starvation, food spending, obesity and food wastage.
• http://www.worldbank.org/foodcrisis/ World bank website on the food crisis.