“Frankie’s Food for Planet Earth” appears in the magazine’s Spring/Summer issue, an insert into the daily Ottawa Register. In it, journalist Debra Huron interviews Frankie about hunger, ethics, and Frankie’s philosophy on life. The interview ends with a “Getting to Know Her…” section with questions like, “Where does she go for solace?”

"Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy" this article quotes of Frances, on the region of Belo Horizonte, one story of many documented in Hope's Edge, by Frances and Anna. Read how Belo Horizonte's Right to Food is serving as a model for India's many initiatives addressing hunger, including the Hindustan Times project Tracking Hunger.

See Frances' Canadian tour highlights, including interviews at CBC and more!

Dismayed by the erosion of fair and evidence-based discourse in our wider culture, I believe that—more than ever—academic institutions must hold the line. So, six distinguished colleagues—including Dr. Hans R. Herren, winner of the World Food Prize—and I have called on Oxford University Press to take remedial steps. The Press published a book on life-and-death matters of food and hunger, Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, that fails to meet basic scholarly standards. It provides no citations for its many claims and fails to disclose that the author has been an advisor to the Monsanto Company about which he writes favorably. The Press also promotes the book as a “map” of “contested terrain,” implying it can help readers sort through “conflicting claims and accusations from advocates from all sides,” when Food Politics is a narrow argument by an advocate.
Oxford University Press leaders refused even to discuss our concerns, so we have launched a petition campaign. Please read about why we’re so concerned and sign our petition. Ask your friends, too.

--Frances Moore Lappé