Josué de Castro
Hunger, World Peace Council prizes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, United Nations
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, expert on nutrition, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger. His book Geopolitics of Hunger was granted with The Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation Award, in 1952. Two years later, he received the International Peace Prize. He taught at the University of Brazil and was chairman of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. He was also a member o...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, expert on nutrition, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger. His book Geopolitics of Hunger was granted with The Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation Award, in 1952. Two years later, he received the International Peace Prize. He taught at the University of Brazil and was chairman of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. He was also a member of the Brazilian parliament and a diplomat. His political rights came to an end with the military coup of 1964 in Brazil. He taught at Paris 8 University until his death. Ground-breaking ecological work about the political issue of hunger in Brazil. Published in 1946, the book emphasizes the socio-economic backgrounds of the biological manifestation of hunger and condemns the physical determinism. Originally published in the U.S. with the misleading title of The Geography of Hunger in 1952, translated into 26 languages
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