BOOKS:
The Politics of Pacific Islands Fisheries. Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1980 (ISBN 0-89158-683-0).
The Political Economy of Hunger: The Silent Holocaust. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1984 (ISBN 0-03-000368-7)
Editor (with Mark J. Valencia), Marine Policy in Southeast Asia. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1985 (ISBN 0-520-05366-4).
Fish, Food, and Hunger: The Potential of Fisheries for Alleviating Malnutrition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1987 (ISBN 0-8133-7409-X).
The Politics of Children's Survival. New York: Praeger Publishers. 1991 (ISBN 0-275-93723-2).
Children in the International Political Economy. London/New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1995 (ISBN 0-333-59897-0 and 0-312-12870-3).
Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005 (ISBN 1-58901-056-6
and 1-58901-055-8). Available as no-cost PDF file at http://press.georgetown.edu/pdfs/9781589010550.pdf
Editor, Global Obligations
for the Right to Food. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2008 (ISBN-10: 0-7425-6063-5).
MONOGRAPHS:
War and Children's Survival. Honolulu: Spark Matsunaga Institute
for Peace, 1990.
Implementing the Rights of Children in Armed Conflict. Honolulu: Spark Matsunaga Institute for Peace, 1992.
(with Joda P. Derrickson) Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs
in Hawai’i: Report to the Hawai’i State Legislature. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i, 1995.
ARTICLES:
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"Waste and Malnutrition at Sea," Food Monitor, No. 17
(July/August 1980), pp. 5-8. PDF.
"Food Trade: The Poor Feed the Rich," Food and Nutrition Bulletin,
Vol. 4, No. 4 (October 1982), pp. 25-33.
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/food/8F044e/8F044E05.htm#Food%20trade:%20the%20poor%20feed%20the%20rich
"Why Work to End Hunger?" Seeds (Sprouts edition), March 1985, p. 2; republished in newsletter of the Missions Office of the Archdiocese of Seattle, March/April 1985 and in Food and Hunger Notes, No. 30, March/April 1985. PDF.
"Fisheries and Undernutition," Ecology of Food and Nutrition,
Vol. 16 (1985), pp. 281-204. PDF.
"Aquaculture: Motivating Production for Low-Income Markets" and
"Sharing the Catch at Village Level: Fishponds in Thailand," in
Ceres: FAO Review on Agriculture and Development, Vol. 19, No. 4
(July-August 1986), pp. 23-27. PDF
"The Industrialization of Fisheries," Peasant Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter 1986), pp. 133-142. PDF.
"Fish and Nutriton in India," Food Policy, Vol., 12, No. 2 (May 1987), pp. 161-175. PDF.
"Answer is Power Not Just Bread," UNICEF Intercom, No. 47 (January 1988), pp. 2-3.
"Nutrition Education as an Instrument of Empowerment," Journal
of Nutrition Education, Vol. 20, No. 4 (July/August 1988), pp.
193-195. PDF file
"Review of Neal Spivack and Ann Florini, Food on the Table: Seeking Global Solutions to Chronic Hunger," Gandhi Marg: Journal of the Gandhi Peace Foundation, Vol. 10. No. 6 (September 1988), pp. 375-377.
"Improved Use of Fisheries Resources: Alleviating Malnutrition in Southern Africa," Food Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4 (November 1988), p. 341-358.
"Who Would Not Save Their Own Children? The Impact of Powerlessness on Child Survival," Development Forum, Vol. 16, No. 6 (November-December 1988), p. 11.
(with Jesse M. Floyd and Elizabeth D. Samson) "Cooperative Ventures in Southeast Asian Fisheries," Development & South-South Cooperation , Vol. IV, No. 7 (December 1988), pp. 129-146.
"Children as Human Capital?" Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 4 (December 1988), pp. 54-58. PDF file
"Security and Hunger," WHY: Challenging Hunger and Poverty, No. 1 (Spring 1989), pp. 18-19.
"Who Cares About Our Children," The Nation (Bangkok), January 21, 1990, p. 6.
"The Children's Holocaust," Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem), Issue 28 (September 1990), pp. 3-6.
"United States Policy on Children," in Barbara Bennett Peterson and Wilhelm G. Solheim II, eds., The Pacific Region 1990: Change and Challenge (Washington, D.C.: Fulbright Association, 1991), pp. 107-115. PDF.
"Our Children, Our Future," Futures, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January/February 1991), pp. 32-49.
"Children’s Survival in the Pacific Islands," in Albert B. Robillard, ed., Social Change in the Pacific Islands (London: Kegan Paul International, 1992).
"Empowering Non-governmental Organizations," CHILD Asia, No.
5 (March-April
1992), pp. 9-11. PDF file.
"Little Foreign Bodies: International Dimensions of Child Prostitution," in Michael Freeman and Philip Veerman, eds., The Ideologies of Children's Rights (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1992), pp. 323-346.
Review of Myron Weiner's The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective, American Political Science Review, Vol. 86, No. 2 (June 1992), pp. 569-570.
"Saving the Children—The Politics: Review of Robert Myers' The Twelve Who Survive: Strengthening Programmes of Early Childhood Development in the Third World," Futures, Vol. 24, No. 8 (October 1992), pp. 835-837.
"Review of Francis M. Deng and Larry Minear, The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan," Peace and Change , Vol. 18, No. 3 (July 1993), pp. 307-310.
"The Denial of Children's Mortality," Internet on the Holocaust and Genocide, Special Triple Issue 44-46 (September 1993), pp. 18, 20.
"Valuation in Development Projects: Enlarging the Analytical Framework," Futures, Vol. 25, No. 8 (October 1993), pp. 902-906. PDF .
"Analyzing Conflict and Violence," Peace and Change, Vol. 18, No. 4 (October 1993), pp. 373-399. Prepublication text.
"Children's Right to Adequate Nutrition," International Journal of Children's Rights, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1993), pp. 133-154. Republished in Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 4 (December 1994), pp. 343-354. (Earlier draft published in H. G. Bohle, ed., Worlds of Pain and Hunger: Geographical Perspectives on Disaster Vulnerability and Food Security, Saarbrucken: Verlag Breitenbach, 1993, pp. 165-185).
"Nutrition and Human Rights," SCN News (Newsletter of the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination/Subcommittee on Nutrition), No. 10 (Late 1993), pp. 9-12.
"Liberating Child Labor," CHILDAsia, No. 10 (1994), pp. 5-7.
"The Roles of International Organizations in Advancing Nutrition Rights," Food Policy, Vol. 19, No. 4 (July 1994), pp. 357-366. PDF file.
"Implementing Children’s Nutrition Rights," Current World Leaders, Vol. 27, No. 4 (August 1994), pp. 109-130.
"The Massive Mortality of Children," in Israel W. Charny, ed.,
The
Widening Circle of Genocide (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction
Publishers, 1994), pp. 272-289.
"Nutrition Rights," in Kit Cosby and Bernard Hamilton, eds., Fresh Thoughts for Human Rights (Washington, D. C.: United Nations Association/National Capital Area, 1994), pp. 92-99.
"Implementing Children’s Nutrition Rights," in The Child and the Law (New Delhi: UNICEF India Country Office, March 1994), pp. 50-57."‘Fish for the Poor’: Competing with Chickens," The Ecologist,
Vol. 25, No. 2/3 (March/April, May/June 1995), p. 48. PDF.
"Children and War" and "Children’s Rights in War." In Donald A.
Wells, ed., An Encyclopedia of War and
Ethics
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 70-72; 72-76.
"Humanitarian Intervention." In Donald A. Wells, ed., An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwwod Press, 1996), pp. 214-218. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent/Hum%20Intervention.pdf
(with María Eugenia Villareal) "Promoting Nutrition Rights in Latin America," Food Policy, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 103-110.
"Aid Cuts Unnecessary, Wrong," Honolulu Advertiser, May 8, 1996, p. A14; republished in InnerVIEW (Newsletter of the Mental Health Association of Hawai’i), Vol. 54, No. 2 (Summer 1996), p. 4.
"General Assistance: A Matter of Principle," Ke Ola Kino (Newsletter of the Hawai’i Public Health Association (Summer 1996), pp. 1, 8.
(with Sanford Schram and Annette Gardner) "Hawai’i Must Move to Limit Carnage Here," Honolulu Advertiser, October 20, 1996, pp. B1, B4.
(with María Eugenia Villareal) "Regional Implementation of Children’s Nutrition Rights in Central America and Mexico," in E. Verhellen, ed., Monitoring Children’s Rights (Netherlands: Kluwer, 1996), pp. 495-502.
"Fisheries, Food Security, and the Poor," Food Policy, Vol. 22, No. 5 (1997), pp. 393-404. PDF.
"Realizing International Children’s Rights through Implementation of National Law," International Journal of Children’s Rights, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1997), pp. 439-456 (Special Issue on Food and Nutrition Rights, edited by George Kent).
"Realizing Infants’ Nutrition Rights," International Journal of Children’s Rights, Vol. 5, No. 4 (1997), pp. 457-472 (Special Issue on Food and Nutrition Rights, edited by George Kent).
"Children," in Michael T. Snarr and D. Neil Snarr, eds., Introducing
Global Issues (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998,
2002).
The Right to Quality Education.
Background Paper for United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights. Geneva: CESCR. E/C.12/1998/13. November 30,
1998. http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/ae6e568fecdbb6e9802566bf003a58f0?OpenDocument
"Women’s Right to Breastfeed vs. Infants’ Right to Be Breastfed,”
SCN News, No. 17 (December 1998), pp. 18-19. PDF.
"What is AIDS?" Continuum, Vol. 5, No. 6 (Summer 1999), pp.
66-70. PDF file
"Tested in Court: The Right to Breastfeed," SCN News, No. 18
(July 1999), pp. 89-90. PDF
“Children’s Mortality and Genocide,” in Israel W. Charny, ed., Encyclopedia of Genocide, Volume I (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), pp. 138-141. PDF file.
“Solomons’ Wisdom?” SCN News, No.19 (December 1999), p. 4. http://www.unsystem.org/scn
“Turning UH Debacle Around,” Honolulu Advertiser, September 1, 1999, p. A8. PDF file.
“Transcending the Generation Gap in Nutrition,” SCN News, No. 19 (December 1999), p. 49. PDF file.“Investing for Future Generations,” in Tae-Chang Kim and James A. Dator, eds., Co-creating a Public Philosophy for Future Generations (Twickenham, England: Adamantine Press, 1999), pp. 173-180.
"The United States’ Targeting of International Humanitarian Assistance," in David P. Forsythe, ed., The United States and Human Rights: Looking Inward and Outward (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000). Prepublication text . Figures and tables available on request. In Microsoft Word.
"HIV and Breastfeeding: The Debate Continues," Mothering, July-August 2000, p. 30. http://www.mothering.com/12-0-0/html/12-4-0/12-4-bfhiv94.shtml
"Market Fundamentalism," Peace & Policy, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 2000), p. 36. PDF.
"The Human Rights Approach to Reducing Malnutrition," in M. K.
Tolba,
Our Fragile World: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable
Development (Oxford, U.K.: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems,
2001). PDF.
"Should HIV-positive Mothers Use Infant Formula?" Health Exchange (April 2001), pp. 8-9. PDF.
"Breastfeeding: A Human Rights Issue?" Development, Vol. 44, No. 2 (June 2001), pp. 93-98. PDF file.
"Goals and Targets in the Realm of Nutrition Rights," SCN News, No. 22 (July 2001), pp. 15-17. PDF file.
"Food Trade and Food Rights," UN Chronicle, Issue 1 (2002). http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p27.html
"Breastfeeding vs Formula-Feeding Among HIV-Infected Women in Resource Poor Areas," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 287, No. 9 (March 6, 2002), pp. 1111-1113.
"Africa's Food Security Under Globalization," African Journal of
Food & Nutritional Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2002). http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent/AFRICAS%20FOOD%20SECURITY%20UNDER%20GLOBALIZATION.pdf
"A Gendered Perspective on Nutrition Rights," Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity (South Africa), Vol. 51 (2002), pp. 43-50. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kent/genderedperspective.pdf
"The Human Right to Disaster Mitigation and Relief," Environmental Hazards, Vol. 3 (2001), pp. 137-138. PDF.
"Question de Droits," Les Dossiers de l'Allaitement, No. 52 (Juillet-Août-Septembre 2002), pp. 3-4. PDF.
(with David Crowe). Infant Feeding and HIV: The Importance of
Language in Shaping Policy. Website of Another Look. October
2002. http://www.anotherlook.org/papers/f/index.php