Frances Moore Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944 in Pendleton , Oregon , USA ) is an activist against world hunger and its causes. She represents the concept of “food first” or food sovereignty .
Life
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 15 books, including 1971 Diet for a Small Planet (German: Die Öko-Diet ), which was sold around 3 million times worldwide, and 12 myths about world hunger ( World Hunger: Twelve Myths ), which she co-authored with Joseph Collins. With the latter, she founded the Food First Institute (also known as the Institute for Food and Development Policy ) in 1975, which aims to inform the American public about the causes of world hunger. She is a member of the World Future Council .
Frances Moore Lappé has received a total of 17 honorary doctorates . In 1987 she received the " Alternative Nobel Prize " together with Joseph Collins and the Institute for Food and Development Policy .
Her daughter, Anna Lappé, supports Frances Moore Lappé in her fight against hunger.
Quote
“No society has fulfilled its democratic promise when people are starving ... When some do not have to eat, they have obviously been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy. "
Book publications
- Diet for a Small Planet , Ballantine Books, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991. ISBN 0345023781 , German The eco-diet: how to eat well with little meat and protect nature , 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. On the Myth of Hunger. Unmasking a legend: Nobody has to go hungry , Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978
- (with Joseph Collins): Nicaragua: What difference could a revolution make , dt. Nicaragua: What has changed through the revolution? : Agrarian reform u. Nutrition in New Nicaragua , Wuppertal: Nahua Edition, 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 about hunger in the world , Zurich: 4th, 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 hope. An international travel 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. German Let's do it! Clarity, creativity and courage in a world that has gone mad. , Bielefeld: J. Kamphausen 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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Frances Moore Lappé in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alternative Nobel Prize Frances Moore Lappé (Engl.)
- World Future Council: Short biography
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore Lappé, Frances |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American activist against world hunger, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pendleton, Oregon |