Accountability for Mass Starvation
New Publication available August 25, 2022
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famine
Digital feast and famine
By Susanne Jaspars, Catriona Murdoch and Nisar Majid
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New Occasional Paper: Gender, Famine and Mortality
During times of famine, sex, gender and age differences matter. But precisely how and why these factors intersect with famine conditions is an issue of much debate.
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Starving Tigray: Mass atrocity and humanitarian emergency in Ethiopia
Panel discussion on war and famine in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
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Accountability for Starvation
Three new reports in the project “Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law” are now available.
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Report: Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War
Discussing the impact of the Coalition bombing campaign on food production and distribution in Yemen.
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The Return of Famine
Friday, May 4, 2018
9:00am – 5:30pm
Drawing on Tufts University’s distinguished record of scholarship and public engagement on the subject of famine, this conference will bring together faculty and researchers from across the University, in conversation with outside experts. Panels will address why famine has returned, today’s humanitarian challenges, legal and political issues related to criminalizing famine, and the most pressing famine of today, Yemen.
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.
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Mass Starvation Research
The future famine?
Read moreFamine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs
The Famine Trends dataset includes two kinds of overlapping events, which have hitherto largely been studied separately. First, are great
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