Ethiopian Famine

Author : Peter Gill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191614316

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Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid by Peter Gill Pdf

The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of the events - if not the original TV pictures, then Band Aid and Live Aid, Geldof and Bono. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicentre of the famine and one of the TV reporters who brought the tragedy to light. This book is the story of what happened to Ethiopia in the 25 years following Live Aid: the place, the people, the westerners who have tried to help, and the wider multinational aid business that has come into being. We saved countless lives in the beginning and continued to save them now, but have we done much else to transform the lives of Ethiopia's poor and set them on a 'development' course that will enable the country to do without us?

Author : Kurt Jansson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034239702

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The Ethiopian Famine by Kurt Jansson Pdf

Abstract: This book discusses the Ethiopian famine of 1984-5 and the relief effort that was conducted to alleviate the suffering. The publication is divided into 2 segments written by different authors. Background to the Ethiopian situation and possibilities for future action are discussed. The details of the administration and history of the famine relief effort are reviewed.

Author : Alex De Waal,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 1564320383

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Evil Days by Alex De Waal,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

For the past thirty years-under both Emperor Haile Selassie and President Mengistu Haile Mariam-Ethiopia suffered continuous war and intermittent famine until every single province has been affected by war to some degree. Evil Days, documents the wide range of violations of basic human rights committed by all sides in the conflict, especially the Mengistu government's direct responsibility for the deaths of at least half a million Ethiopian civilians.

Author : Jason W. Clay,Bonnie K. Holcomb
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1412831288

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Politics and the Ethiopian Famine by Jason W. Clay,Bonnie K. Holcomb Pdf

An investigation into the conditions of resettlement after the famine.

Author : James McCann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781512804409

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From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia by James McCann Pdf

In From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia, James McCann engages an interdisciplinary perspective to uncover the historical background to the persistence of famine in the northeast region of Ethiopia. His study focuses on the northern Wallo region, an area that was incorporated into Haile Selassie's modern state system and now one of the most devastated portions of the country. The history of northern Wallo and its position within the modern Ethiopian state is presented through an examination of the circumstances in which its rural population lived, farmed, and adapted to a changing physical environment and political economy between 1900 and 1935. This period also coincided with the most critical years of colonial Africa's incorporation into the world economy. McCann's employment of new field data calls into question previous studies of Africa, which have frequently identified ecological stress and famine as simply the products of capitalist development. What accounts for rural Ethiopia's vulnerability to famine, when it boasts one of Africa's most efficient traditional agricultural systems? To what extent have northern Ethiopian patterns of property, marriage, and ideology resisted or contributed to the overall impoverishment of the rural economy? The answers to these questions are found in McCann's careful examination of the historical, geographic, ecological, and demographic characteristics that have affected northern Wallo's systems of production. This comprehensive description of northern Wallo's historical experience is also instructive in terms of the nature of social change and continuity, and the persistence of famine throughout northern Ethiopia. From Poverty to Famine in Northeastern Ethiopia

Author : Patrick Webb,Joachim Von Braun,Yisehac Yohannes
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896290952

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Famine in Ethiopia by Patrick Webb,Joachim Von Braun,Yisehac Yohannes Pdf

Concepts and research approach; A record of drought and famine in Ethiopia; Household responses to drought and famine; Agricultural constraints: conflict, policy, and drought; Prices and markets during famine; Public intervention during famine.

Author : Elizabeth Glaser,Timothy Levi Biel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 156006014X

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The Ethiopian Famine by Elizabeth Glaser,Timothy Levi Biel Pdf

Discusses the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s within its historical, geographical, and political contexts and examines the possibility of future famines there.

Author : James Finn
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0932088473

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Ethiopia, the Politics of Famine by James Finn Pdf

War, famine, pestilence and doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist dictatorship; these are the four horsemen of modern Ethiopia's particular apocalypse. They have combined with one another into a brew more poisonous even than the sum of its parts. Just how a people of such ancient culture and proud history, and of such intelligence and sophistication, could have come to this sad fate requires some words of explanation. That the name Ethiopia has, over the past two decades, become synonymous with starvation, civil war and man's massive inhumanity to his fellow man, is a source of deep pain to Ethiopians everywhere o those in the growing Ethiopian diaspora as much as to those who remain within Ethiopia's borders and of bewilderment and puzzlement to others. There must be a reason for it. This volume, the result of a recent symposium that included two very distinguished former high officials of the Mengistu regime, provides much of the answer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : MINN:31951002922075H

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Ethiopian Famine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199569847

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Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid by Peter Gill Pdf

`No outsider understands Ethiopia better than Peter Gill. He combines compassion with a clinical commitment to the truth. He writes with verve and an eye for telling detail. The result is a major contribution to the compelling story of this remarkable nation.'---Jonathan Dimbleby --

Author : Paul Kelemen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040468105

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The Politics of the Famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea by Paul Kelemen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037147030

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The Ethiopian Famine : the Story of the Emergency Relief Operation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abdul Mejid Hussein
Publisher : International African Institute
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036559669

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Rehab by Abdul Mejid Hussein Pdf

Monograph of articles on drought and malnutrition in Ethiopia - surveys the effects of the drought upon agricultural production in the various provinces before and during the natural disaster, and discusses recent aid programmes for economic recovery in rural areas. Illustrations, maps and statistical tables.

Author : Dessalegn Rahmato
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171063145

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Famine and Survival Strategies by Dessalegn Rahmato Pdf

What do peasants do in the face of severe food crisis and ecological stress, and how do they manage to survive on their own? This study revolves around a case study conducted by the author in the awraja (district) in the Ambassel Wollo province in northeastern Ethiopia. This is in the region that was hit hardest by the 1984-85 famine, which Rahmato calls "the worst tragedy rural Ethiopia had ever experienced". The author also critically examines other literature on famine response. The focus of this study is on what happens before famine comes, and how the peasants prepare for it. From a wealth of evidence, the author concludes that the seeds of famine are sown during the years of recovery.

Author : Alula Pankhurst
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 0719035376

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Resettlement and Famine in Ethiopia by Alula Pankhurst Pdf

This book is the inside story of the Ethiopian resettlement programme, carried out in the mid-1980s by the Ethiopian government amid fierce international controversy. It relies on the views of the settlers themselves, and is based on an in-depth study carried out by an anthropologist who lived in a resettlement village. Alula Pankhurst dispels current myths about resettlement; while showing the importance of famine and coercion, he highlights social factors in the mosaic of settlers' motivation. He documents the attempt to institute a collectivist model of agriculture and analyses the reasons for its failure. He also examines the effects of Ethiopia's recent economic liberalisation and the impact of aid agencies. The book addresses an increasing Third World phenomenon: state organised relocation. It is a major contribution to the literature on mass-migration and on refugees. By focusing on the interaction between people and the state, it also reassesses a fundamental development problem: the gulf between local and national priorities. Accessible and thought-provoking, Resettlement and famine in Ethiopia will be of interest to anthropologists, students of development studies, and practitioners, and all those concerned by famine, forced migration and socialist attempts to transform societies.