Author : Dennis Harold Wood
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Africa
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Author : Dennis Harold Wood
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Africa
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Author : Francis Mading Deng
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Drought relief
ISBN : 9780815717911
The book outlines four problem areas exemplified in the response to each crisis: the external nature of famine relief, the relationship between relief activities and endemic problems, the coordination of such activities, and the ambivalence of the results. The authors identify the many difficulties inherent in providing emergency relief to populations caught in circumstances of life-threatening famine. They show how such famine emergencies reflect the most extreme breakdown of social order and present the most compelling imperatives for international action. Deng and Minear also discuss how the international community, alerted by the media and mobilized by the Ethiopian famine, moved in to fill the moral void left by the government and how outside organizations worked together to pressure Sudan's political authorities to be more responsive to these tragedies. Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order.
Author :
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ethiopia
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN :
Author : Laurence Binet
Publisher : Médecins Sans Frontières
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2013-11-08
Category :
ISBN :
The “Famine and Forced Relocations in Ethiopia 1984-1986” case study is describing the difficulties and dilemmas met by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) during the famine that decimated the Ethiopian population in 1984-1985. This famine triggered an unprecedented humanitarian mobilisation and huge media attention. But the Ethiopian regime at the time also used the international aid as a bait to attract the populations and forcibly resettle them in appalling conditions. In this context: what should have been done when it appeared that aid was being used against the population for whom it was intended? Could MSF’s denunciation have endangered international aid operations in Ethiopia? By taking such positions, could MSF put its own existence and, thus, its other activities at risk?
Author : Norbert Götz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108493521
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Author :
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Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Drought relief
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Author : R. E. Downs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : 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 : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : 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.
