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Aid airdrops resume in Gaza as starvation deaths rise
Israel resumed airdropping food into Gaza and announced \"tactical pauses\" in fighting on July 27, as deaths from starvation in the enclave worsened.
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World hunger : 10 myths
\"Driven by the question 'Why hunger despite an abundance of food?,' Lappâe and Collins [examine] the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. [Their book] draws on extensive new research to offer ... insights about tough questions--from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more\"-- Amazon.com
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Gazans are being starved to death
After four months of Israeli siege, nearly 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating, and deaths are rising from malnutrition.
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Hunger and war : food provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II
\"Making use of recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food, and in feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production, and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine\"--Provided by publisher.
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Fighting famine in North China : state, market, and environmental decline, 1690s-1990s
This monumental work provides a new perspective on the historical significance of famines in China over the past three hundred years. It examines the relationship between the interventionist state policies of the eighteenth-century Qing emperors ('The golden age of famine relief'), the environmental and political crises of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (when China was called 'the Land of Famine'), and the ambitions of the Mao era (which tragically led to the greatest famine in human history). In addition to a wide array of documentary sources, the book employs quantitative analysis to measure the economic impact of natural crises, state policies, and markets. In this way, the theories of Qing statesmen that have received much attention in recent scholarship are linked to actual practices and outcomes. Using the Zhili-Hebei region as its focus, the book also reveals the unusual role played by the institutions and policies designed to ensure food security for the capital, Beijing. -- Publisher description.
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