Abstract: Six scholarly essays about food and nutrition policy challenge long-held credos and strategies for feeding hungry people and satisfying food shortages over the long term. The author presents a two-pronged approach in her discussion of food policy and hunger. The first involved de-constructing the prevailing assumptions regarding hunger (i.e. hunger is caused by over-population, can be alleviated by food trade and assistance, and is a scientific problem that can be alleviated by technological innovation), demonstrating their empirical inadequacy and their hidden political assumptions. The second involved an outline of an agenda for research and action to reconstruct an alternative knowledge about hunger. It is concluded that hunger is a political program of power and will and a problem of poverty, and that scholars should study the poor less and the powerful more, challenging the systems of power and privilege. It also concluded that, without this challenge, the same inadequate patterns will be repeated over and over again. (wz).