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Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.
The response to the many problems facing the region has been set back by cuts in humanitarian aid.
Climate and geopolitical shocks – from El Niño, global heating or wars – hit a food system which already magnifies environmental and social vulnerabilities.
Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited growth in the modern era.
Without rapid cuts to fossil fuels and a shift to clean energy, climate change could drive over a billion into hunger by 2100, hitting Africa hard.
A new report shows that food security is in danger around the world.
Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
An Indigenous scholar explains how starvation was used to acquire the lands of Indigenous peoples. Her great-grandparents experienced ‘starvation winter’ on the Blackfeet reservation.
Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious minorities, including the Druze.
Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.
Terror groups use food as a tool to fight, govern and survive.
A snapshot of the effect of the freeze in USAID on one part of Sudan.
The key to the for-profit company’s successful partnership with governments, international agencies and humanitarian, nongovernmental organizations is how it handled its patent.
The absence of the early warning network will affect Kenya’s ability to address food insecurity.
Massive political efforts are needed to tackle the root causes of hunger – conflict, poverty, inequality. Technology alone is not sufficient.
Thought-provoking reads for the critical thinker on your gift list. Each book connects with a past Don’t Call Me Resilient episode. Listen alongside reading to bring the scholar & their ideas to life.
Malnutrition during childhood damages the brain’s development and the body’s ability to fight illness and digest food. For those in Gaza, the effects will be felt for generations.
Revisit past episodes of Don’t Call Me Resilient that dive into issues related to the Israel-Gaza conflict, both at home and away.
The United Arab Emirates is emerging as the foreign player most invested in Sudan’s conflict.
Top contributors
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Professor Emeritus of Food Security, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus in Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
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Director of the Climate Hazards Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian and East European Studies, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor, History, La Trobe University
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Catedrático de Nutrición y Bromatología del Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universitat de València
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Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Professor of Geography, Ghent University
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Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Adjunct Professor of African Security Studies, University of Juba
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Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard University
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Researcher, Ghent University; Oregon State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London