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Author: Kevin Cunningham
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1410940942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines drought and famine around the world, citing such famous examples as the Dust Bowl and Australia's "Big Dry."
Author: Purendra Prasad
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Kevin Cunningham
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1410943801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joanna Brundle
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-12-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1534524134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders are introduced to the perils of famine and drought and the lasting effects they have on Earth’s geography and human population. This captivating text brings forth how famine and drought happen, what measures are taken to avoid them, and how they have impacted different parts of the world. Additional information is provided through enlightening fact boxes and simple diagrams to enhance readers’ knowledge of these crucial subjects. Illuminating, full-color photographs are also included in this educational and age-appropriate text, which supports common science curriculum topics.
Author: Dessalegn Rahmato
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789171063144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do peasants do in the face of severe food crisis and ecological stress, and how do they manage to survive on their own? This study revolves around a case study conducted by the author in the awraja (district) in the Ambassel Wollo province in northeastern Ethiopia. This is in the region that was hit hardest by the 1984-85 famine, which Rahmato calls "the worst tragedy rural Ethiopia had ever experienced". The author also critically examines other literature on famine response. The focus of this study is on what happens before famine comes, and how the peasants prepare for it. From a wealth of evidence, the author concludes that the seeds of famine are sown during the years of recovery.
Author: Sean Connolly
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781583403891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the causes and effects of famines and droughts throughout the world, how relief agencies help, and what can be done to prevent future famines.
Author: Holger Weiss
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 21
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Walker
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
Published: 2004-05-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781932799088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Famine, Drought, and Plagues, find out why droughts and plagues happen, the damage they cause, and how they and other disasters can lead to widespread famine. Book jacket.
Author: Michael Mortimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-03-30
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521323123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful'be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the observable resilience of semi-arid ecosystems and the adaptive strategies of the human communities that inhabit them and suggests policy directions for strengthening that resilience.
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1781683603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.
