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The Political Economy of Hunger: Famine Prevention (Vol. 2) » Read Now
by Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen. 404 pgs.

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...DREZE AND AMARTYA SEN Volume 2 Famine Prevention CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD...Africa Ann Whitehead Volume 2: Famine Prevention Introduction Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen Famine...
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation » Read Now
by Amartya Sen. 257 pgs.

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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the...
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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
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Environment, Famine, and Politics in Ethiopia: A View from the Village » Read Now
by Alemneh Dejene. 148 pgs.

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Famine in Peasant Societies » Read Now
by Ronald E. Seavoy. 484 pgs.

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...Famine in Peasant Societies Recent Titles in Contributions...the American Machine Tool Industry Anthony Di Filippo Famine in Peasant Societies RONALD E. SEAVOY...
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Population and Poverty in the Developing World (Chap. 5 "Famine, Demography, and Endemic Poverty") » Read Now
by Massimo Livi-Bacci, Gustavo De Santis. 324 pgs.

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The increasing gap between developed and developing world will be one of the most important themes of the 21st century. The contributions contained in this volume take a multidisciplinary approach to the problem, offering a comprehensive review of the theoretical issues and empirical findings that...
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The increasing gap between developed and developing world will be one of the most important themes of the 21st century. The contributions contained in this volume take a multidisciplinary approach to the problem, offering a comprehensive review of the theoretical issues and empirical findings that relate to the complex and multidirectional link between poverty and demographic behaviours and outcomes in the contemporary developing world. The starting point of the volume is an exact definition of poverty. The contributors go on to analyse in the detail its causes and effects, both at the micro and macro level, concentrating on those factors and consequences which relate more directly to the demographic sphere. Population growth, household structure and labour, fertility, AIDS, urbanization, migration, and mortality are amongst the areas covered, with the major themes discussed and elaborated in an introductory overview chapter.
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The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies ("Agrarian Reform/Small-Farm Policy and Famine" begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by E. Wayne Nafziger, Raimo Veayrynen. 322 pgs.

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Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies, and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term development policies rather than...
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Since the end of the cold war, civil wars and state violence have escalated, resulting in thousands of deaths. This book provides a toolbox for donors, international agencies, and developing countries to prevent humanitarian emergencies. The emphasis is on long-term development policies rather than mediation or reconstruction after the conflict ensues. Policies include democratization, reforming institutions, strengthening civil society, improving the state's administrative capability, agrarian reform, accelerating economic growth through stabilization and adjustment, reducing inequalities, and redesigning aid to be more stable.
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The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid (Chap. 6 "Emergency and Relief Operations") » Read Now
by D. John Shaw. 302 pgs.

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This book is the first history of the World Food Programme, the food aid arm of the United Nations. It tells the story of the growth of WFP from modest beginings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to its current role as the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and...
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This book is the first history of the World Food Programme, the food aid arm of the United Nations. It tells the story of the growth of WFP from modest beginings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to its current role as the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and development against the background of the evolution and development of food aid.
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The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan » Read Now
by Francis M. Deng, Larry Minear. 170 pgs.

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For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has...
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For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has caused widespread human suffering. The Sudan illustrates the proverbial worst-case scenario in which urgent food needs have been denied, food has been used as a weapon, and outside assistance has been obstructed. The Challenges of Famine Relief focuses on the two famine emergencies in the Sudan in the 1980s - the great African drought-related famine of 1984-86 and the conflict-related famine that afflicted the southern Sudan in 1988-91. Francis Deng and Larry Minear analyze the historical and political setting and the response by Sudan authorities and the international community. 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 tobe more responsive to these tragedies. Looking ahead, the authors highlight the implications for future involvement in humanitarian initiatives in a new world order. As recent developments in Eastern Europe and the former S
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War and Drought in Sudan: Essays on Population Displacement » Read Now
by Eltigani E. El Tigani. 118 pgs.

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...History, Military. 3. Droughts--Sudan. 4. Famines--Sudan. 5. Refugees--Sudan. 6. Sudan...capacity in Africa 12 1.2. Famine areas and location of major wars in...
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The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940 (Chap. 8 "Colonialism, Famine, and Epizootic, 1884-1914") » Read Now
by James L. Giblin. 218 pgs.

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...Economic aspects -- Tanzania -- History. 2. Famines -- Tanzania -- History. 3. Environmental...Politics 70 Part III: Famine, Disease, and the Decline of Patrons...Authority...
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The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century » Read Now
by William Chester Jordan. 305 pgs.

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The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, no...
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The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, no one has offered a perspective of what daily life was actually like throughout the entire region devastated by this crisis, nor has anyone probed far into its causes. Here, the distinguished historian William Jordan provides the first comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany. He produces a rich cultural history of medieval community life, drawing his evidence from such sources as meteorological and agricultural records, accounts kept by monasteries providing for the needy, and documentation of military campaigns. Whereas there has been a tendency to describe the food shortages as a result of simply bad weather or else poor economic planning, Jordan sets the stage so that we see the complex interplay of social and environmental factors that caused this particular disaster and allowed it to continue for so long.Jordan begins with a description of medieval northern Europe at its demographic peak around 1300, by which time the region had achieved a sophisticated level of economic integration. He then looks at problems that, when combined with years of inundating rains and brutal winters, gnawed away at economic stability. From animal diseases and harvest failures to volatile prices, class antagonism, and distribution breakdowns brought on by constant war, northern Europeans felt helplessly besieged by acts of an angry God--although a cessation of war and a more equitable distribution of resources might have lessened the severity of the food shortages.Throughout Jordan interweaves vivid historical detail with a sharp analysis of why certain responses to the famine failed. He ultimately shows that while the northern European economy did recover quickly, the Great Famine ushered in a period of social instability that had serious repercussions for generations to come.
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The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923: The Operations of the American Relief Administration » Read Now
by H. H. Fisher. 614 pgs.

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...THE FAMINE IN SOVIET RUSSIA 1919-1923 THE MACMILLAN...MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO THE FAMINE IN SOVIET RUSSIA 1919-1923 THE OPERATIONS...Relief Administration...
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On the Trail of the Russian Famine » Read Now
by Frank Alfred Golder, Lincoln Hutchinson. 319 pgs.

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...ON THE TRAIL OF THE RUSSIAN FAMINE Transporting A.R.A. food into the interior ON THE TRAIL OF THE RUSSIAN FAMINE FRANK ALFRED GOLDER and LINCOLN...page in the history of...
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China: Land of Famine » Read Now
by G. M. Wrigley, Walter H. Mallory. 199 pgs.

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...CHINA: LAND OF FAMINE MALLORY FIG. I. A FARMER OF NORTHERN CHINA...Edited by G. M. WRIGLEY CHINA: LAND OF FAMINE BY WALTER H. MALLORY Secretary, China International Famine...
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Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine » Read Now
by Dali L. Yang. 380 pgs.

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In this book the author has managed to gather together an impressive array of historical documents to provide the first comprehensive treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine.