Op Ed-More than Malnutrition: Famine as Social Crisis

by Alex de Waal

Young girls line up at a feeding center in Mogadishu, Somalia, March 9, 2017. (Photo: Tobin Jones/UN)

Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at Tuft University’s Fletcher School, discusses the history of declaring famines in this opinion editorial.

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