The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations

by Francis Mading Deng

Book Overview

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For nearly a decade, international efforts to combat famine and food shortages around the globe have concentrated on the critical situations in sub-Saharan Africa. In the Sudan, the largest country in Africa, prolonged drought, complicated by civil strife and debilitating economic problems, has caused widespread human suffering. The Sudan illustrates the proverbial worst-case scenario in which urgent food needs have been denied, food has been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815717911
• ISBN13: 9780815717911
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"