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Famines et politique

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Sylvie Brunel

Today hunger is no more the result of misfortune, of nature disorders or the increase of world population but the consequences of human action. In a few words, hunger is politic. Read More

Twenty years of experience in the fight against hunger have allowed author Sylvie Brunel to construct a typology of contemporary famine: besides “denied” famine, the existence of which is silenced as long as possible, there exists “created” famine and “exposed” famine, orchestrated as tools of propaganda in the context of humanitarianism and aid.

Faced with these types of hunger crises, the question today is not how the world can feed its people, but if it wants to feed its people.

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Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po
Author: Sylvie Brunel,
Collection: Bibliothèque du citoyen
Language: French
Tags: , Europe
Publisher Category: > Geopolitics > International Organisations
Publisher Category: > International field
BISAC Subject Heading: POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Onix Audience Codes: 01 General / trade
CLIL (Version 2013-2019): 3283 SCIENCES POLITIQUES
Title First Published: 01 January 2002
Subject Scheme Identifier Code: Thema subject category: Politics and government