An important part of the arguments I make in the book are about how poor people are denied access to food, even when they're not being denied access to food.

Take, for instance, the food stamp programme in the United States, where 36 million people went hungry last year. Food stamps are designed to ensure that working families don't run out of basic foodstuffs. Given the redlining of communities of poor people, supermarkets aren't going to come in and provide fresh fruit and veg. But processed food giants are only too happy to offer product that can sit on the shelves of corner stores for months before they're bought. ... read more »

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Posted on 4 February, 2008 - 20:08

Over 1 billion people now live in slums and shack settlements around the world. Fighting this poverty, and the injustice that perpetuates it, are a number of shackdweller movements. In South Africa, a remarkable organisation has risen up to challenge the chronic poverty which they face - the Durban Shackdweller's Movement. Abahlali baseMjondolo (Zulu for "those who live in shacks") has fought off a range of illegal attempts by the government to gag, suppress and dispossess them. Find out more at http://www.abahlali.org

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Posted on 1 December, 2006 - 21:52