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Becker Cafe: HUNGER, THE OLDEST PROBLEM: A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN CAPARROS
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Registration will only be open from Apr 23, 2025 (at 7 PM) to Apr 23, 2025 (at 8:20 PM).
It's now 12:36 AM on Apr 21, 2025.
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Martín Caparros’s book “Hunger” is an attempt to tell how, where and why people don’t eat what they need. To answer these questions, Caparros traveled through India, Bangladesh, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Madagascar, Argentina, and the United States. He talked to hundreds of people, read tons of pages, immersed himself in figures, tried thinking even just a little, and learned a few things. He learned that the world might be filled with different problems, complications, defeats and dramas, but behind them there is always the ghost of hunger. Caparros learned that 18 people in the world die every minute due to hunger and its effects. Eighteen people per minute — one every four seconds — killed by hunger. He learned that hunger is a matter of ownership and of distribution. There is enough food for everyone, only some keep more than what they need, so there is not enough for the rest.
Join the Becker Café for a conversation with Martín Caparros about what prompted him to write “Hunger”, what challenges he faced when researching it, and what has changed since its publication.