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Facing Up to Africa's Food Crisis

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The most intractable food problem facing the world in the 1980s is the food and hunger crisis in sub-Saharan Africa--the poorest part of the world. Although the crisis follows by less than a decade the prolonged drought of the early 1970s in the Sahelian states of West Africa, the current dilemma is not caused by weather. Nor is the chief problem imminent famine, mass starvation, or the feeding and resettling of refugees. Improved international disaster assistance programs can avert mass starvation and famine and assist with refugee resettlement.

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The Africa food riots of 2008

Submitted by navarra444 on July 22, 2009 - 8:57pm.

If this advice was used there may not have been food riots in Africa in 2008. It is interesting that 1980 was a lot like 2008: high oil and transportation costs, a world recession. I actually hadn't heard of food riots until 2008. Food riots were also not only in Africa. But here in America we couldn't imagine running out of food.

John Navarra
Daytona Beach, Florida

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