Right Livelihood Award 1987
”…for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.”
Throughout her work Lappé stressed that hunger is caused not by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. In 1990 she helped bring that message home, co-founding with her husband, Paul Martin Du Bois, the Center for Living Democracy in Brattleboro, Vermont. Their 1994 book, The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives describes the work of citizens creating a ‘living democracy’ that engages ordinary citizens in decision making. Believing that society’s problems can only be solved in such a living democracy, Lappé and Du Bois are creating a national centre through which citizens learn from each other’s trials and triumphs.” During Visionaries in Action, Frances’ working group covers the topics Civil Society, Political Participation & Democracy
