The Challenge of famine : recent experience, lessons learned
- Title
- The Challenge of famine : recent experience, lessons learned / editor, John Osgood Field.
- Published by
- West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 1993.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series statement
- Kumarian Press library of management for development
- Uniform title
- Kumarian Press library of management for development.
- Subject
- Contents
- Understanding famine / John Osgood Field -- Drought and famine in Africa, 1981-86 : a comparison of impacts and responses in six countries / Leonard Berry, Thomas E. Downing -- Drought and famine in the pastoral zone of the Sahel : the 1984 drought in Niger / J. Dirck Stryker -- Responses to famine : why they are allowed to happen / Peter Cutler -- "Some tragic errors" : American policy and the Ethiopian famine, 1981-85 / Jack Shepherd -- Reducing vulnerability to drought and famine : developmental approaches to relief / Mary B. Anderson, Peter J. Woodrow -- Coping with crisis : Oxfam America's disaster responses / Joel R. Charny -- Building capacity in the countryside : the role of Sahelian voluntary development organizations / Hussein M. Adam -- Information for food : community famine surveillance in Sudan / William I. Torry -- Using market prices as a guide to predict, prevent, or mitigate famine in pastoral economies : a case study from Sudan, 1989-90 / Paul Ulrich -- Beyond relief : toward improved management of famine / John Osgood Field.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.