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Offers lessons developed as a starting point for teachers to introduce the topic of world hunger to
their students.
http://www.feedingminds.org/
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Comida: An Experience in Famine
Essay by Frank Norris, published 1899 about famine in Cuba.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/NorComi.html
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Mass Starvations and the Limitations of Famine Theorising
Argues that famine is sometimes the result of deliberate policy by those in power. Article by Jenny
Edkins. (PDF document)
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/pvty/Famine/Edkins.pdf
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Food Supply Situation & Crop Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa
Report of the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) that provides an assessment of
the current food supply situation in sub-Saharan Africa. Articles in PDF format.
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/GIEWS/ENGLISH/EAF/eaftoc.htm
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FEWS Net
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Famine Early Warning System. Features
articles and reports on drought and food shortages.
http://www.fews.net/
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Food Outlook
Publication offers a global perspective on the production, stocks and trade of basic food
commodities. Articles available in PDF format.
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/GIEWS/ENGLISH/fo/fotoc.htm
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What is Famine
Account of what famine is, and a brief discussion of the reasons for it.
http://www.ucc.ie/famine/About/abfamine.htm
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The Demography of Famines: Perspectives from the Past and the Present
A set of summaries and abstracts of the presentations of various authorities on the reasons for and
consequences of famines.
http://www.iussp.org/English%20Site/Activities/5-his-rep99.htm
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What Is Food Security and Famine and Hunger?
Discusses the distinctions between these three terms, and explains why it is necessary to
understand these distinctions.
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/research/ijas/ijasno2/ayalew.html
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Opinion: Devinder Sharma - Famine as commerce
Describes and denounces attempts by richer and food exporting nations to use famines in other
countries as a political weapon, and to bolster their own agricultural industries.
http://www.indiatogether.org/agriculture/opinions/dsharma/faminecommerce.htm
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Hunger and Famine
An Africana.com article: gives an account of why hunger and famine occur in parts of Africa,
including social, political and economic reasons.
http://www.africana.com/Articles/tt_486.htm
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What does the Nobel Prize mean?
Article, links and references arguing that Amartya Sen is mistaken in his analysis of the causes of
famine.
http://www.prima.net/bowbrick/Famine.html
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The Great Famine and the Black Death
Lectures on the famine of 1315-1317 and the Black Death, by Lynn Harry Nelson, The University of
Kansas.
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/black_death.html
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Famine and Malnutrition
From EuropaWorld; a set of articles on the economics of farming and famine, food production, and
how allocations of resources affects the poor.
http://www.europaworld.org/Famine.htm
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