A world without famine?: new approach to aid and development/ 
edited by Helen O'Neill and John Toye. 
 - New York:  St. Martin's Press,  1998. 
 - 524 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - A World Without Famine: An Ethical Imperative?; N.Dower - <br/><br/>PART 1: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES - Was the Great Irish Famine like Modern Famines?; <br/>C.O.Grada - The Great Irish Famine: A Simple General Equilibrium Model; <br/>P.McGregor - Friedrich List and the Causes of Irish Hunger; <br/>M.Yaffey - Historical Roots of Famine Relief Paradigms; <br/>D.Hall-Matthews - Famine Relief, Piece-work and Women Workers; <br/>J.Kynch - <br/><br/>PART 2: IMPLICATIONS OF FAMINE FOR LONG-TERM POVERTY - Famine, Demography and Endemic Poverty; S.Osmani - <br/><br/>PART 3: CURRENT THREATS TO FOOD SECURITY - Aid and Drought: Responding to the Human and Economic Consequences of Natural Disasters; <br/>E.Clay - Structural Adjustment and Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa; I.Elbadawi - Drought and the Zimbabwean Economy 1980-93; C.Benson - Dancing with El Nino: Drought, the State and the Nutritional Welfare of Rural Children in Zimbabwe; B.Kinsey - <br/><br/>PART 4: AID STRATEGIES - The Future of Food Aid under the WTO Regime; <br/>D.Shaw & H.Singer - Hunger, Poverty and Human Development; K.Raffer - Irish Aid to Famines and Other Complex Emergencies; H.O'Neill - <br/><br/>PART 5: NEW APPROACHES TO PRACTICE - Rural Public Works and Food Entitlement Protection: Toward a Strategy for Preventing Hunger; <br/>P.Terhal - Potential for Improving Efficiency and Cost-effectiveness for Food Grain Delivery; D.Walker - Laws for the Rich and Flaws for the Poor? Legal Action and Food Insecurity in the Kalahandi Case; B.Currie - The Politics and Governance of Poverty Alleviation Programmes: Is sub-Saharan Africa learning from Latin America?; A.Sverrisson - Taking Root...Gaining Ground: Diversity in Food Production for Universal Food Security ; <br/>P.Mulvany, B.O'Riordan & H.Wedgwood - <br/>Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0333682467  9780333682463 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Famines<br/>Food relief<br/>Economic development<br/>Economic assistance<br/>Economic history<br/>Developing countries<br/>Food supply
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.883  / ONE/A