Are famine crises or mass starvation a product of a natural disaster or is it due to some degree of man-made interference? Global hunger can be analyzed by better understanding some of the place in the world that have been impacted heavily, which include Somalia, Malawi, Niger, Bangladesh, and South Sudan.
Part B & C
Amartya Sen’s work, Poverty and Famines (1981), is significant in the literature surrounding famines and its causes. The general premise of his essay is that famines do not entirely result from natural occurrences of food shortages but rather the inability of people to access to enough food to meet their needs. He discusses major famines that took place around the world including the Great Bengal Famine in 1943, the Bangladeshi …show more content…
The United States initially intervened in Somalia in December 1992 to stop the theft of food aid by the warlords, merchants, and gangs of young men. The mission later on expanded to include “nation-building”, which entailed the “rebuilding of basic state institutions.” They, later on, went to argue, “stopping a man-made famine means rebuilding political institutions to create order.” Clarke and Herbst also outlined the issues with the American intervention in Somalia. The failure of the intervening forces to disarm the warlords, in turn, solidified their influence over the population’s access to food supplies and continued the duration of the famine. The mission deadlines also prevented the reconstruction of stable state institutions, as not enough time was allocated for successful the long-term requirements of such a …show more content…
Whether the exacerbation of famine comes as a result of highly politicized manoeuvres, ineffective economic policies, or devastating social issues within the country, global hunger, in extension of famine, is rooted in man-made causes. The conflicts that have consumed Somalia and South Sudan are politically controversial and have led to disastrous impacts on the local population. In Somalia, without the necessary infrastructure of a functioning state, the populace, in many cases, is left to cope with the food shortages by their meagre means. While, in South Sudan, civil war is ever-present reality for decades now, which has marginalized people and made them vulnerable to the conflict. However, it was in the late 1990s when it was clear that the Sudanese government at the time was exacerbating the food shortage in the country by cutting off “most aid flights to [famine-stricken areas of southern Sudan] for two months.” Next, Somalia also had to deal with economic issues related to the drought that only further the people’s suffering. With the exponential rise in food prices, a decreasing market for livestock, and crop failures in 2011 and 2012, pirates along the coastlines and plundering warlords are greatly limiting people’s access to food. In South Sudan “most of the oilfields are located in South Sudan while Sudan holds
Part B & C
Amartya Sen’s work, Poverty and Famines (1981), is significant in the literature surrounding famines and its causes. The general premise of his essay is that famines do not entirely result from natural occurrences of food shortages but rather the inability of people to access to enough food to meet their needs. He discusses major famines that took place around the world including the Great Bengal Famine in 1943, the Bangladeshi …show more content…
The United States initially intervened in Somalia in December 1992 to stop the theft of food aid by the warlords, merchants, and gangs of young men. The mission later on expanded to include “nation-building”, which entailed the “rebuilding of basic state institutions.” They, later on, went to argue, “stopping a man-made famine means rebuilding political institutions to create order.” Clarke and Herbst also outlined the issues with the American intervention in Somalia. The failure of the intervening forces to disarm the warlords, in turn, solidified their influence over the population’s access to food supplies and continued the duration of the famine. The mission deadlines also prevented the reconstruction of stable state institutions, as not enough time was allocated for successful the long-term requirements of such a …show more content…
Whether the exacerbation of famine comes as a result of highly politicized manoeuvres, ineffective economic policies, or devastating social issues within the country, global hunger, in extension of famine, is rooted in man-made causes. The conflicts that have consumed Somalia and South Sudan are politically controversial and have led to disastrous impacts on the local population. In Somalia, without the necessary infrastructure of a functioning state, the populace, in many cases, is left to cope with the food shortages by their meagre means. While, in South Sudan, civil war is ever-present reality for decades now, which has marginalized people and made them vulnerable to the conflict. However, it was in the late 1990s when it was clear that the Sudanese government at the time was exacerbating the food shortage in the country by cutting off “most aid flights to [famine-stricken areas of southern Sudan] for two months.” Next, Somalia also had to deal with economic issues related to the drought that only further the people’s suffering. With the exponential rise in food prices, a decreasing market for livestock, and crop failures in 2011 and 2012, pirates along the coastlines and plundering warlords are greatly limiting people’s access to food. In South Sudan “most of the oilfields are located in South Sudan while Sudan holds