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Zusatztext ...an interesting new preface in which he comments on events in the region since the early 1980s...a useful case study of the dynamics of famine. Informationen zum Autor Alex de Waal is Director of Justice Africa, based in London, and a Fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University. De Waal is the author of several books on famine, human rights, and conflict in Africa including, Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa. Klappentext In 2004, Darfur, Sudan was described as the "world's greatest humanitarian crisis." Twenty years previously, Darfur was also the site of a disastrous famine. Famine that Kills is a seminal account of that famine, and a social history of the region. In a new preface prepared for this revisededition, Alex de Waal analyzes the roots of the current conflict in land disputes, social disruption and impoverishment. Despite vast changes in the nature of famines and in the capacity of response, de Waal's original challenge to humanitarian theory and practice including a focus on the survivalstrategies of rural people has never been more relevant. Documenting the resilience of the people who suffered, it explains why many fewer died than had been predicted by outsiders. It is also a pathbreaking study of the causes of famine deaths, showing how outbreaks of infectious disease killedmore people than starvation. Now a classic in the field, Famine that Kills provides critical background and lessons of past intervention for a region that finds itself in another moment of humanitarian tragedy. Zusammenfassung Examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in the 80's, and aid agencies' response to it. This book claims that humanitarian aid can be made more effective by looking at the underlying causes of local response to disaster, rather than relying simply on providing massive amounts of food aid, which is often distributed ineffectively.
