Accountability for Mass Starvation
New Publication available August 25, 2022
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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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New Pathogen, Old Politics
Pandemic is a time of confusion and disorder. By definition, the new pathogen is new to epidemiology and microbiology, and
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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 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.
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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