East Africa S Quiet Famine

Author : Global Health Subcommittee On Africa, Global Huma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1547030372

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East Africa's Quiet Famine by Global Health Subcommittee On Africa, Global Huma Pdf

According to estimates by the United Nations, more than 28 million people in east Africa need immediate food aid. Three countries in the region have emergency level food aid needs-Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. Meanwhile, areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda also face crisis level hunger with some households already in emergency conditions. In Somalia, at least 6.2 million people, more half that country's population, need food assistance. In South Sudan, nearly two-thirds of the population requires assistance, and 4.9 million people, about 40 percent of the population, face severe life-threatening hunger. In Sudan more than 5.8 million Sudanese are believed to require assistance, 3.3 million of them in still-embattled Darfur states. The devastating impact of the current famine isn't confined to the hardest hit drought areas. Uganda itself, struggling with the effects of drought in some areas, has had to contend with nearly 800,000 refugees from South Sudan. In 2011, the first U.N.-declared famine since the 1980s occurred in east Africa, affecting more than 10 million people. Six years ago, there was great attention given to that famine. The current famine, despite reaching crisis levels, has not garnered the attention that it deserves.

Author : United States. Congress,United States House of Representatives,Committee On Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979820821

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East Africa's Quiet Famine by United States. Congress,United States House of Representatives,Committee On Foreign Affairs Pdf

East Africa's quiet famine : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 28, 2017.

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974014967

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East Africa's Quiet Famine by United States Congress Pdf

East Africa's quiet famine : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, March 28, 2017.

Author : Luka Biong Deng Kuol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 064521051X

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WHY DOES FAMINE PERSIST IN AFRICA? by Luka Biong Deng Kuol Pdf

This book analyses the root and proximate causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economic and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems. It is estimated about 70,000 persons died as a result of lack of food and mass starvation. This famine emerged from a long history of political repression by successive governments in Sudan that aimed at destroying the lives and livelihoods in Bahr el Ghazal region. This process resulted not only in the erosion of sources of livelihoods of the rural population but also made them increasingly susceptible to exogenous shocks such as climate change, El-Nino and counterinsurgency warfare.The book shows that the poor management of the famine in 1998 was largely related to lack of a common understanding of famine and the poor quality of information generated by early warning systems that resulted in divided opinion among the charity agencies about the severity of food crisis. It was left to the western media to reveal the presence of the famine and trigger, though late, a massive international relief response.This book is a good resource for readers and practitioners in food security, development, and humanitarian assistance and intervention. "Africa famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans." P.J.O'Rourke

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000050341801

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The U.S. Response to East African Famines and the Future Outlook for Food Aid in Africa by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business
ISBN : UCBK:C054355911

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Business America by Anonim Pdf

Includes articles on international business opportunities.

Author : Michael J. Watts
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820344454

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Silent Violence by Michael J. Watts Pdf

Why do famines occur and how have their effects changed through time? Why are those who produce food so often the casualties of famines? Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African Sahel during the 1970s, Michael J. Watts examines the relationships between famine, climate, and political economy. Through a longue durée history and a detailed village study Watts argues that famines are socially produced and that the market is as fickle and incalculable as the weather. Droughts are natural occurrences, matters of climatic change, but famines expose the inner workings of society, politics, and markets. His analysis moves from household and individual farming practices in the face of climatic variability to the incorporation of African peasants into the global circuits of capitalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods. Silent Violence powerfully combines a case study of food crises in Africa with an analysis of the way capitalism developed in northern Nigeria and how peasants struggle to maintain rural livelihoods. As the West African Sahel confronts another food crisis and continuing food insecurity for millions of peasants, Silent Violence speaks in a compelling way to contemporary agrarian dynamics, food provisioning systems, and the plight of the African poor.

Author : John R. Butterly,Jack Shepherd
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781584659266

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Hunger by John R. Butterly,Jack Shepherd Pdf

A timely and provocative look at the role political developments and the biology of nutrition play in world famine

Author : John Iliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521348773

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The African Poor by John Iliffe Pdf

This history of the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated for labour, bereft of support, and unable to fend for themselves in a land-rich economy. There has emerged the distinct poverty of those excluded from access to productive resources. Natural disaster brought widespread destitution, but as a cause of mass mortality it was almost eliminated in the colonial era, to return to those areas where drought has been compounded by administrative breakdown. Professor Iliffe investigates what it was like to be poor, how the poor sought to help themselves, how their counterparts in other continents live. The poor live as people, rather than merely parading as statistics. Famines have alerted the world to African poverty, but the problem itself is ancient. Its prevailing forms will not be understood until those of earlier periods are revealed and trends of change are identified. This is a book for all concerned with the future of Africa, as well as for students of poverty elsewhere.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Food relief, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045087439

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World Hunger Situation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture Pdf

Author : Alexander De Waal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211581

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Famine Crimes by Alexander De Waal Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Food supply
ISBN : WISC:89067062562

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War on Hunger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amitava Mukherjee
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8170229871

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Perspectives Of The Silent Majority : Air Pollution, Livelihood And Food Security by Amitava Mukherjee Pdf

Author : Paul R. JOSEPHSON,Paul R Josephson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674039247

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Resources under Regimes by Paul R. JOSEPHSON,Paul R Josephson Pdf

Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape.

Author : Ronald E. Seavoy
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038574559

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Famine in East Africa by Ronald E. Seavoy Pdf

Efforts to commercialize agriculture in peasant societies through investments in technology and various pricing strategies have failed to create the food surpluses needed to forestall famine and support industrialization in East Africa. Seavoy explores this problem, basing his study on the case of Tanzania, a country that experiences recurrent peacetime famines associated with failures in subsistence agriculture. Providing an analysis of East African subsistence culture, he investigates the failures of national agricultural policies and defines strategies for inducing subsistence farmers to shift to commercial production. Seavoy looks at various development initiatives involving technological inputs, political pressure, taxation, and land tenure provisions and their effects on the political economy of subsistence agriculture. He presents a detailed survey of subsistence culture, its agricultural and pastoral practices, and such variables as labor, topography, rainfall, and population density. The shaping of the East African political economy under colonial rule is discussed, together with the economic, social, and political legacy that has persisted to the present day. Seavoy examines Tanzanian agricultural policy, which has aimed at facilitating the transition to commercial agriculture. He finds that the country is a long way from achieving the assured food surpluses that would enable the nation to support an urban industrial workforce. Among the underlying causes he notes the continuing population explosion, the farmers' objections to commercialized agriculture, and deficiencies in the physical infrastructure, trained personnel, and political institutions. He argues that surpluses will not be created until political leaders use the power of national government to enforce the shift to commercial production. A noteworthy and original contribution to development literature, this work is relevant to studies in modern political economy, Third World development, agricultural economy, and related disciplines.