The son of legendary investor Warren Buffet relates how he set out to help nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security through his passion of farming, in forty stories of lessons learned.

"A biography about chef José Andrés, who, through his World Central Kitchen organization, is fulfilling a vision to feed people in need all over the world"--

Explores the struggle faced by people worldwide to find food, including how it feels to be malnourished and the effects of hunger on people's lives, why famines happen and where they are most likely to strike, and whether or not growing more food is the solution.

"An important, hopeful book that looks at the urgent problem of childhood malnutrition worldwide and the revolutionary progress being made to end it. From the much-admired writer of luminous prose and humane heart, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one fourth of the world's children-- one in four-- are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients....

"The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the other direction, to help the millions unable to escape, was...

After watching a news bulletin about war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina, Magnus MacFarland-Barrow and his brother agreed to take a week's hiatus from work to help. Neither of them expected it to be a life-changing experience, but what began as a one-time road trip in a beaten-up Land Rover grew to become Magnus' life's work - he left his job, sold his house and directed all of his efforts to feeding thousands of the world's poorest children. Magnus retells...