GEOG 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Phytophthora Infestans, Food Security
9 Mar 2017
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Lack of access to food: conflict and misrule, land distribution, poverty/lack of econ safety net. West sahelian famine (1968-1974: fluctuations in rainfall, long history of human habitation, high human death roll; half livestock herd gone; crops devastated, debateable causes. East african drought (2011: area of uneven food security, somalia: famine, al-shabaab prevents food from getting to ppl and ppl from getting food, food scarcity causes increase of prices, responses of the int community. Somalia as a nation of poets: do nothing b/c nothing can be done. Important to denaturalize famine: victims and potential victims are represented in a way that makes it difficult to relate, to see them as (cid:494)like us(cid:495), as fully human and full of humanity. If famine is a (cid:494)natural(cid:495) consequence of a poor envi and too many ppl resulting in not enough good then the response either becomes .
