طوابير الخبز الجديدة: الجوع والأمل في القرن الحادي والعشرين

New York Times Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2025 Zocalo Book Award • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations tackles the global food crisis, revealing how hunger anywhere affects the lives of people everywhere, and what steps we can take to change the course. “This book should be mandatory reading for all of humanity,” says Jonathan Safran Foer, author of We Are the Weather. At the turn of the twenty-first century, more than 150 countries pledged to end hunger by 2030. But with only a few years left, we are still far from achieving this goal. On the contrary, hunger is on the rise, and America itself has recently experienced levels of food insecurity not seen since the Great Depression. How is it possible that the richest country in the world has so many hungry people? In The New Breadline, aid worker and activist Jan-Martin Bauer exposes this paradox. The Bauer family fled to America during the horrors of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. Today, Haiti stands on the brink of mass starvation, and Haiti and its dark history have inspired Bauer to make food justice his life's calling. During his long career with the United Nations, Power understood firsthand that the problem of hunger always has a political dimension, and like all political circumstances, he knew that hunger was something we could work to change. Drawing from his fieldwork in the world's most hunger-prone countries—from Haiti, where elites have a monopoly on imported French cheese, to Madagascar, where foreign corporations are seizing valuable land from local farmers, and right here in America, where food bank lines continue to grow—Power combines deep personal insight with a keen understanding of the structural systems of racism, classism, and sexism that impede real progress in the fight against hunger. The New Breadline is an inspiring call to action to end what he convincingly argues is one of the greatest threats to our society, boldly envisioning a world in which we can always feed ourselves and each other.