Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine by Alex de Waal

Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine

Alex de Waal

264 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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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 p...

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