The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of ChangeRead about the other books on the list.
Roger Thurow spent a year with four women smallholder farmers in western Kenya to document their struggles in supporting and feeding themselves and their families. He evaluates the extent to which the work of initiatives like the One Acre Fund can help these farmers pull themselves up and defeat hunger and poverty.
The Page 99 Test: The Last Hunger Season.
--Marshal Zeringue