40 chances : finding hope in a hungry world

Buffett, Howard G.

Book 2013

If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son, Howard G. Buffett in 2006, when he announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy. Howard set out to help the most vulnerable people on Earth, nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security. And Howard has given himself a deadline: 40 years to put more than $3 billi...

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Agricultural development projects Developing countries

Food relief Developing countries

Humanitarianism Developing countries

Hunger Developing countries

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ISBN:

9781451687873
1451687877

Description:

xiv, 443 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Forty chances

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-423) and index
Signed by Howard G. Buffett

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: one shot at a warlord
Story 1: How I realized i had only "40 chances"
Story 2: Prague, 1968 : "The army eats first : we get what is left"
Story 3: From bulldozing dirt to planting soil
Story 4: Devon's gift
Story 5: Because "al called"
Story 6: The ovarian lottery
Story 7: Reality has a nutty taste, especially when fried
Story 8: Where hunger hides
Bravery, courage, and hope
Story 9: Loved, but lost
Story 10: Empty calories
Story 11: Little cromite
Story 12: Sex and hunger in Timbuktu
Story 13: Loss in Armenia
Story 14: Farming under fire
Story 15: Seeds of change
Story 16: Shakira
Story 17: a franciscan padre in the Sierra Madre
Story 18: Gorillas v. guerillas
Hard-learned lessons
Story 19: Can this village be saved?
Story 20: A complicated legacy
Story 21: For yields to go up, we have to look down
Story 21 1/2: owners make better farmers
Story 22: What does doing better look like? / by Howard W. Buffett
Story 23: Disconnects
Story 25: A six-beer insight
Story 26: Less than sparkling
Challenges we need to figure out
Story 27: Elephants and experts
Story 28: Can smarter carrots save soil?
Story 29: Chains that unlock potential / by Howard W. Buffett
Story 30: A walk to the well
Story 31: Souped up yields from stripped down tools
Story 32: Does aid plant seeds of violence? / by Howard W. Buffett
Reasons to hope
Story 33: Opening what once was cerrado
Story 34: Chocolate-covered opportunities
Story 35: Fired up in Ghana
Story 36: Buy local!
Story 37: Hungry for data
Story 38: The power of a piece of paper
Story 39: Farmer of the future / by Howard W. Buffett
Story 40: Help for a "poor relation"
Epilogue: an optimistic pessimist returns to prague

LCCN:

2013031452

Control Number:

2790626

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