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About the Author

Alex de Waal is a Director of Justice Africa in London and a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University. He is the author of several books on famine, human rights, and conflict in Africa, and has been at the forefront of mobilizing African and international responses to these problems.

Reviews

"...an interesting new preface in which he comments on events in the region since the early 1980s...a useful case study of the dynamics of famine."--Foreign Affairs
Praise for the Previous Edition:

"[A] classic study."--Andrew Natsios, Administrator, USAID

"A book of decisive practical and intellectual significance."--Craig Calhoun, President, Social Sciences Research Council

"This book and Sen's Poverty and Famines are the two most important books ever written on famine."--Sue Lautze, Director, Livelihoods Initiatives Program, Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University

"A key text in understanding famine and never more relevant than today. It put people's coping strategies on the map, as well as the importance of disease-led mortality."--Dr David Keen, Reader in Complex Emergencies, London School of Economics

"The best book ever written about the region."--John Prendergast, International Crisis Group
"...an interesting new preface in which he comments on events in the region since the early 1980s...a useful case study of the dynamics of famine."--Foreign Affairs