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Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize

by October 30, 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail:  The Origins of Power, Prosper...

Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response by Fred Cuny

by April 13, 2024

Book Classic:  Famine, Conflict and Response:  a Basic Guide By Fred Cuny, with Rick Hill      (West Hartford, CN:  Kumarian Press       1999) This basic, extremely readable text about fami...

BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World

by steve hansch February 6, 2024

BOOK REVIEW:  The Enduring Struggle:  The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris.   2021.   Lanham MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Pub...

Afghanistan faces greater hunger this winter

by Ali M. Latifi The New Humanitarian January 18, 2023

In this article, the plight of many Afghans is described as a choice between keeping warm or going hungry.  This article in The New Humanitarian was published 8 December, 2022,  prior to the  Taliban's 24 December ban  on women working f...

Panellists on IWMI dialogue discuss how Pakistan can achieve food, water and food security

by Press Release The Nation April 27, 2021

A holistic approach and reliable database on water resources and their usage across the Pakistan is the key to achieving food, water and energy security in the fifth most climate-vulnerable country in the world, according to the panellists who attend...

Desert Locusts Swarm in India – Worst in 27 Years

by Nobin Raja M. and Priya Ranganathan Mongabay June 6, 2020

Desert Locust Swarms in Northern India are the worst in 27 years and will affect food security. These swarms have already affected 13 countries and now India's Rajasthan State and are moving toward Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and Maharashtra Stat...

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