A World Without Famine!: New Approaches to Aid and Development

by John Toye (Editor), Helen B. O'Neill

Contains selected papers from the proceedings of the Development Studies Association conference held in Dublin in 1995 on the 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine. Contributions deal with the subject of famine in developing countries using the concept of food security, which considers famine a socio-economic process rather than a naturally-occurring crisis of food shortage. Topics the historical roots of famine relief paradigms; drought, the state and the nutritional welfare of rural children in Zimbabwe; legal action and food insecurity in the Kalahandi case; and the politics and governance of poverty alleviation program. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

524 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1997