Famine was weaponised as part of a broader campaign of destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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By August,15.8% of children aged under five were suffering from acute malnutrition.
This legal analysis lists the atrocities committed by Israel in great detail.
While sanctions aim to punish regimes, they often punish citizens instead.
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.
Starvation causes both physiological and psychological stress.
Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.
States must exercise their full diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel to let aid in at the scale required to avert famine.
What the strong resistance to the new model reveals: a lack of good faith on Israel’s part to adhere to its obligations under international law.
Starvation and malnutrition are harmful for anyone. But for infants the impact can be profound and lasting.
International law is clear: ‘the use of starvation as a method of warfare is prohibited’. Israel’s blockade of the strip is in clear defiance of this.
Hunger is setting in for Alone Australia contestants. Here’s what’s going on in the body and the mind.
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.
Africa has a hunger crisis: it’s time to change the approach to agriculture.
The destruction of food systems in Gaza and Canada is part of a larger effort of land dispossession and capitalist accumulation. The fight for food sovereignty is about justice and self-determination.
There is a high risk of famine in multiple regions of Sudan if immediate action is not taken.
Hunger, stress, trauma, inadequate sanitation and other factors are converging to create a widespread humanitarian disaster with consequences that could last for generations.
In this bonus episode, you’ll meet some of the producers who help make this podcast to revisit some of our favourite episodes from past seasons.
The government’s rhetoric in response to the death of the Australian aid worker is stronger than we’d previously seen, but in a conflict with no clear solutions, little will change.
For centuries, colonial powers have used starvation as a tool to control Indigenous populations and take over their land and wealth. A look back at two historic examples on two different continents.
Top contributors
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PhD candidate in Protection of Civilians, Australian National 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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Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of International Law, Tufts University
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Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Mekelle University
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Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of South Florida
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Professor of Geography, Ghent University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University
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Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader for the Sudan Strategy Support Program, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University
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Research Professor, Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Associate Professor of History, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Environmental Modelling, Griffith University
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Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy and Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, King's College London