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Food Aid and Nutritional Programmes During the Rwandan Emergency
Author(s) -
SHOHAM JEREMY
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1996.tb01048.x
Subject(s) - wasting , famine , malnutrition , starvation , environmental health , food aid , medicine , suicide prevention , emergency response , poison control , injury prevention , medical emergency , political science , food security , geography , agriculture , archaeology , pathology , law , endocrinology
In contrast to several other recent emergencies 1 , the response of the international relief community to the Rwandan emergency appears largely to have prevented widespread malnutrition and related mortality. While it is true that aspects of the response in the food and nutrition sector were in various ways open to criticism and may have contributed to unnecessarily high levels of wasting in some camps at various points in time, the appalling excesses of famine witnessed in other recent African crises was not revisited during this emergency. Indeed, the main factors contributing to mortality and morbidity during the Rwandan emergency were violence and epidemics rather than lack of food and nutritional support.