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Book Reviews: Mass Starvation: the history and future of famine. Cambridge: Polity Press (hb £55 – 978 1 5095 2466 2 ; pb £16.99 – 978 1 5095 2467 9 ). 2018, xiv + 260 pp

Africa, 2018, Vol.88 (4), p.894-895 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © International African Institute 2018 ;ISSN: 0001-9720 ;EISSN: 1750-0184 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0001972018000633

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    Book Reviews: Mass Starvation: the history and future of famine. Cambridge: Polity Press (hb £55 – 978 1 5095 2466 2 ; pb £16.99 – 978 1 5095 2467 9 ). 2018, xiv + 260 pp
  • Author: Dyson, Tim
  • Subjects: Child mortality ; Climate change ; Colonialism ; Famine ; Politics ; Population growth ; Poverty ; Starvation
  • Is Part Of: Africa, 2018, Vol.88 (4), p.894-895
  • Description: [...]criticized views are sometimes portrayed in over-simple terms. [...]de Waal states (p. 48) that Sen in his book Poverty and Famines ‘showed empirically’ that several famines (Bengal 1943–44, Ethiopia 1973, Bangladesh 1974–75) occurred without food availability declines (FADs). [...]there is the threat of climate change – addressed in a chapter with the indicative title ‘The famine that isn't coming’.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English;French;German
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0001-9720
    EISSN: 1750-0184
    DOI: 10.1017/S0001972018000633
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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