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What is Mass Starvation : The History and Future of Famine about?
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation
Who reads Mass Starvation : The History and Future of Famine?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- De Waal, Alex
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781509524709
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Economics
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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