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The Challenge of famine : recent experience, lessons learned

Title
The Challenge of famine : recent experience, lessons learned / editor, John Osgood Field.
Publication
West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Field, John Osgood, 1940-
Description
xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Kumarian Press library of management for development
Uniform Title
Kumarian Press library of management for development.
Subject
  • Food relief
  • Food relief > Africa
  • Famines
  • Famines > Africa
  • Hungersnot
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Nahrungsmittelhilfe
  • Hongersnood
  • Voedselvoorziening
  • Food aid
  • Food aid > Africa
  • Agricultural information systems
  • Africa
  • Famine
  • Relief
  • Geschichte (1980-1989)
  • Afrika
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Understanding famine / John Osgood Field -- Drought and famine in Africa, 1981-86 : a comparison of impacts and responses in six countries / Leonard Berry, Thomas E. Downing -- Drought and famine in the pastoral zone of the Sahel : the 1984 drought in Niger / J. Dirck Stryker -- Responses to famine : why they are allowed to happen / Peter Cutler -- "Some tragic errors" : American policy and the Ethiopian famine, 1981-85 / Jack Shepherd -- Reducing vulnerability to drought and famine : developmental approaches to relief / Mary B. Anderson, Peter J. Woodrow -- Coping with crisis : Oxfam America's disaster responses / Joel R. Charny -- Building capacity in the countryside : the role of Sahelian voluntary development organizations / Hussein M. Adam -- Information for food : community famine surveillance in Sudan / William I. Torry -- Using market prices as a guide to predict, prevent, or mitigate famine in pastoral economies : a case study from Sudan, 1989-90 / Paul Ulrich -- Beyond relief : toward improved management of famine / John Osgood Field.
ISBN
  • 1565490193
  • 9781565490192
  • 1565490185
  • 9781565490185
LCCN
93000975
OCLC
  • ocm27813196
  • 27813196
  • SCSB-2053603
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library