Famine that Kills

De Waal examines the famine in Dafur, Sudan in 1984 - 5, and aid agencies' response to it. De Waal 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. De Waal argues that lack of food is often not a chief reason for massive deaths; rather it is disease resulting from social disruption of famine that
causes death on a wide scale. This revised edition updates the previous book by including a preface that examines Darfur as it experiences another crisis; government sponsored miilitia (Janjaweed) raids in black Muslims.

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,.".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."--Foreign Affairs<br> Praise for the Previous Edition: <br> "[A] classic study."--Andrew Natsios, Administrator, USAID<br> "A book of decisive practical and intellectual significance."--Craig Calhoun, President, Social Sciences Research Council<br> "This book and Sen's Poverty and Famines are the two most important books ever written on famine."--Sue Lautze, Director, Livelihoods Initiatives Program, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University<br> "A key text in understanding famine and never more relevant than today. It put people's coping strategies on the map, as well as the importance of disease-led mortality."--Dr David Keen, Reader in Complex Emergencies, London School of Economics<br> "The best book ever written about the region."--John Prendergast, International Crisis Group<br>

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