Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear t…
Explains how farming practices, poor soil, erratic rainfall, and economic and political factors have combined to produce Africa's famine, briefly looks at the history of famine, and outlines hopes for the future
Discusses the causes of hunger and famine in both developed and developing countries and some of the ways of dealing with these problems