Report

Famine: Lessons Learned

Published on 1 September 2017

Famine: Lessons Learned was produced as the world was responding to four potential famines simultaneously – in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia.

Much has been written and researched on famine, and many lessons on how to best prevent and respond to famine have been learned the hard way. This paper therefore draws on lessons learned from the last 30-plus years of famine crises and response, going back to famines in Ethiopia and Sudan in the 1980s, up to the most recent famine in Somalia in 2011.

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Authors

Stephen Devereux

Research Fellow

Tina Nelis

Knowledge Officer

Lewis Sida

Co-Director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre

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published by
IDS
authors
Devereux, S., Sida, L. and Nelis, T.
journal
Report
isbn
978-1-78118-386-1
language
English

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