Famine Hunger And Starvation In Africa
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Author | : John Karefah Marah |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2006-05-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1467803901 |
Skeletal bodies of men and women staring lifelessly out of sunken eye sockets. Children with bloated stomach who look decades older than their actual years. Crowds stampeding towards helicopters. Trucks unloading food donated by international humanitarian organizations. Hunger, starvation, famine and death, depicted in their worst forms. These are some of the images the media have succeeded in creating and fostering on the minds of the general public all over the world about the African famine. Famine in Africa is real, seemingly perpetual, and not getting any better. If anything, it is worsening. The lives of millions of people are at risk right now.Can the problem of famine, hunger and starvation in Africa be solved? Has international food aid helped in any realistic way? Did the African create the problem? What role did globalization play in creating the problem? This is the book that asks all the questions that many have not dared to ask and provides all the answers people have not dared to provide. It discusses, analyzes, and puts the issue in its proper historical context, by delving into the past and providing details of the underlying factors that contributed to the creation of the problem of famine, hunger and starvation in Africa
Author | : Alex de Waal |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-12-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509524703 |
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.
Author | : R. E. Downs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2019-07-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000124231 |
Originally published in 1991. This volume explores the combination of political and economic forces that influence different levels of food supply. The book begins with a discussion of famine theories, ranging from cultural ecology to neo-Marxism. Following this survey is a series of essays by anthropologists, geographers, economists and development practitioners that explores the role of Western institutions in African famine, analyzes famine in particular countries, and documents the relationship between famine and gender. This book takes an unusually broad look at famine by including analyses of countries where hunger has rarely been studied and by examining African famine from both African and Western perspectives. Its concluding proposals for eradicating famine make innovative and provocative contributions to current global debates on food and nutrition.
Author | : Alexander De Waal |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253211583 |
Who is responsible for the failures? African generals and politicians are the prime culprits for creating famines in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire, but western donors abet their authoritarianism, partly through imposing structural adjustment programmes.
Author | : von Braun, Joachim |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0801866294 |
Though famine has affected many parts of the world in the twentieth century, the conditions that produce famine—extreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocks—are now most prevalent in Africa. Researchers differ on how to address this problem effectively, but their arguments are often not informed by empirical analysis from a famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering famine, Famine in Africa grounds its findings in long-term empirical research, especially on the impact of famine on households and markets. The authors present the results of field work and other research from numerous parts of Africa, with a particular focus on Botswana, Ethiopia, Niger, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. With these data, the authors explain the factors that cause famines and assess efforts to mitigate and prevent them. Famine in Africa is an important resource for international development specialists, students, and policymakers.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linley Erin Hall |
Publisher | : Rosen Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404209763 |
Examines the hunger crisis in Africa, describing how the elements of poverty, climate, and political conflict contribute to the problem and how such strategies as work-for-food programs, water improvement, food security programs, and early warning systems can actually reduce the risks of famine.
Author | : Marc Bonenberger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2015-02-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783656892854 |
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Medicine - Epidemiology, grade: 1,0, University of Basel (Centre for African Studies Basel), course: Seminar: Current Ecological and Health Issues, language: English, abstract: Despite the fact that there is currently enough food in the world for all, the poorest billion of the world's population is suffering from starvation and hunger-related diseases. It was estimated that in the 20th century between 70 and 80 million people died in famines worldwide of which 4 million famine deaths occurred in Africa. Even though the last two decades saw a reduction in famines in other parts of the world, on the African continent it is still a sad reality. There are numerous factors causing a famine, most importantly natural disasters, policy failures, conflicts and wars, production and market failures. In most cases it is not a single factor triggering a famine, but it is rather the result of interlocking processes. The overall research question of this paper is: "How are famines caused, what effects do they have on human health, and what are the chances to reduce poverty and hunger in Africa?" This research question is answered in three chapters. The first chapter is an attempt to explain the causes of famines by using the Panarchy Framework as developed by Gunderson and Holling in 2002. In the second chapter, the relationship between hunger, undernutrition and both communica-ble and non-communicable diseases is explored. This includes an analysis on how un-dernutrition is measured and which relief practices in emergency situations are usually being applied. In the third chap-ter the strategies needed to meet the extreme poverty and hunger Millennium Development Goal are explored. As there are a number of threats endangering the achievement of this goal, in a second part of this chapter the main threats are identified to deliberate about whether or not this goal may be achieved in Africa."
Author | : Roger Thurow |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1458767337 |
For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year - most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.
Author | : Bill Rau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Abstract: The book provides a new account of African history and its development prospects. The author focuses on Africa's current food crisis, tracing its origins back to the colonial exploitation of the 19th century. Post-independence strategies are analyzed. The author argues that a profound revolution is under way in Africa's backwaters and urban slums where the poor are withdrawing from the formal market and developing highly innovative and informal networks of trade and production. Increased involveme nt in political struggles at community and national levels is described.