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Mass starvation : the history and future of famine /

"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 principles, and a volatile global economy. In...

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Main Author: De Waal, Alex (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Polity, 2018.
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : 2018.
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