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Famine And Disease

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The World Is Running Out of Food - Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

Is this a catastrophe of the sort that took place a generation ago, when mass famines in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s killed hundreds of thousands of people at a time? No. This time...

Did the World React Too Late to Famine Signs? - The Economist

Quite apart from the death toll and the misery, this is criminally wasteful. When famine threatened Niger in 2005, the cost of help was put at $7 a head. No one did much; the famine...

Preventing the Next African Tragedy - Rudd & Mitchell, The Australian

The UN estimates this is the most severe food security challenge in Africa for 20 years. The extent of the crisis is daunting and the figures are so enormous it is easy to forget that each...

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