Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé ( born February 10, 1944 in Pendleton, Oregon, USA) is an activist against world hunger and its causes. Here it represents the concept of " Food First " or the food sovereignty.

Life

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 15 books, including 1971 Diet for a Small Planet ( German: The Eco- diet), which has been sold around the world about 3 million times, and 12 myths about world hunger (World Hunger: Twelve Myths ) they co-authored with Joseph Collins. With the latter she founded in 1975 the Food First Institute (also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy known), which is to inform the American public about the causes of world hunger. It is council member of the World Future Council.

Frances Moore Lappé has received a total of 17 honorary doctorates. In 1987 she was awarded with Joseph Collins and the Institute for Food and Development Policy, the " Alternative Nobel Prize ".

Her daughter, Anna Lappé, Frances Moore Lappé support in their fight against hunger.

Quote

" No society has fulfilled its democratic promise, when people are starving ... If some do not have to eat, they have obviously been deprived of any power. The existence of hunger punishes the existence of democracy lies. "

Book publications

  • Diet for a Small Planet, Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991 ISBN 0345023781, dt The Eco- diet. How little meat with good eats ud Nature preserves, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1978 last: 1993
  • ( with Joseph Collins): Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, Houghton Mifflin, 1977, Ballantine Books, 1979 The Myth of hunger.. The unmasking of a legend: Nobody has to starve, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978
  • ( with Joseph Collins): Nicaragua: What difference Could a revolution make, dt Nicaragua: What has changed by the revolution? : Agrarian reform and food in the new Nicaragua, Wuppertal: Edition Nahua, 1986
  • What To Do After You Turn Off the TV, Ballantine Books, 1985.
  • ( with Joseph Collins ): World Hunger: Twelve Myths, Grove Press, 1986, 1998 German Ten legends of hunger in the world, Zurich. 4, completely revised. new edition 1982
  • Rediscovering America's Values, Ballantine Books, 1989
  • The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives (with Paul Martin Du Bois ), Jossey -Bass, 1994.
  • ( with Anna Lappé ): Hope 's Edge:. The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Tarcher / Penguin, 2002 German hopefuls. An international guide to green initiatives. Munich: Riemann Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-570-50021-7
  • ( with Jeffrey Perkins ): You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, Tarcher / Penguin, 2004.
  • Democracy 's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, Jossey -Bass, 2005.
  • Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Small Planet Media, 2007 dt Let's get on. ! Clarity, creativity and courage in a world gone mad, Bielefeld. J. Kamp Stockhausen Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89901-178-4
  • Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want, Small Planet Media, 2010.
  • EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want, Small Planet Media, 2011.
Pendleton (Oregon) Integrated Authority File
344849
de