A Famine is Never Just a Famine — It’s Political Violence By Starvation. Carol Jean Gallo March 22, 2017We are entering an age of famine. But the extreme food crises facing South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria are not solely a consequence of natural disaster or climate change. Rather, people are starving to death because other people with the power ...
The “Four Famines,” Explained Kimberly Curtis March 17, 2017Hunger will be the humanitarian disaster of 2017. The UN already declared a full fledged famine in parts of South Sudan last month, and three other situations around the world are precariously close to crossing a threshold of food insecurity that leads to fa...
Trump seeks deep cuts to UN relief programs, just as 20 million people face famine Mark Leon Goldberg March 14, 2017In a perfect storm, the Trump administration is reportedly seeking deep cuts to UN relief programs, just as 20 million people face famine.Colum Lynch reports in Foreign Policy that the White House has instructed the State Department and the US Mission to t...
6 million people are at risk of starving in East Africa, and climate change deserves part of the blame John Light March 9, 2017Secretary General António Guterres has spent the last few days in East Africa, visiting nations there that are slammed by drought and facing rising food prices. The drought, he said, looks to be the worst the area has seen in decades — worse even than a 20...
Famine Strikes South Sudan. UN Warns Three Other Countries Could be Next. One of the Biggest Catastrophes of a Generation Mark Leon Goldberg February 23, 2017Famine kills children first.Famine does not simply mean "lack of food." Rather it is a threshold against which indicators like childhood mortality are measured to determine whether the lack of food is causing people to starve to death in large numbers. Whi...
Is Somalia Facing a Famine? Jacqueline Van De Velde August 13, 2014Without swift donor action and a reevaluation of food aid distribution, Somalia may once again be facing a widespread food security crisis.According to the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 1 million Somalis are in...
A Dire Warning of Famine in South Sudan Mark Leon Goldberg April 22, 2014A famine may befall South Sudan
USAID Launches New PSA Campaign for the Horn of Africa Mark Leon Goldberg October 26, 2011The PSA campaign includes Dr. Jill Biden, who lead an American delegation to the region last month; and actor Josh Hartnett (who starred in Black Hawk Down);
