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Unexplored Territory: the Political, Bureaucratic and Financial Constraints Affecting Recommendations for Preventing Famine in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

John M. Cohen
John M. Cohen*
Affiliation:
Senior Advisor MOF and Institute Fellow, Harvard Institute for International Development, P.O. Box 68228, Nairobi, Kenya
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If the millions of words being written to define famine, identify and debate its causes, and outline complex approaches to its early identification and prevention could be eaten there would be far fewer hungry people in the world. This is particularly the case for Africa. Already an enormous number of conference papers, journal articles, institutional monographs, and commercial books have been published on topics related to food shortages and famine on that continent. Beneath this generally available strata of publications lie a vast number of internal reports, studies and evaluations done by the staff of or consultants to international agencies, major donors and non-governmental agencies. (For example, simply consult the growing output on early warning systems and drought administration systems being produced by the staff and consultants to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development located in Djibouti and created in 1986 to serve assist six drought prone countries of the Horn of Africa.)

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , February 1991 , pp. 204 - 208
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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