Famine responses in the world food crisis 1972–5 and the World Food Conference of 1974

In the early 1970s, there was scarcity in the world grain market, soaring prices and famines in several countries of Asia and Africa. The commercial grain trade was expanded at the expense of food aid. After a brief look at policies addressing the situation in terms of modernised methods of agricultural production for small producers, the article sketches how such policies also affected relief efforts, from the low availability for food aid, the provision of food that was not useful and late deliveries through efforts to tie food aid to local changes in agricultural production and settlement patterns. In part, food aid thus reinforced processes of social differentiation that had contributed to causing the famines in the first place.

The famine in China,

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On the trail of the Russian famine

Maps on lining papers.

Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, in 1846 and 1847.

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Ethiopia and Sudan [microform] : warfare, politics, and famine : hearing before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, July 14, 1988.

"Serial no. 100-30."

Famine in India : its causes and effects /

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Report of the Indian Famine Commission, 1901.

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Bengal famine code.

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