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Famine in Africa: The Real Cause
Author(s) -
Ayittey George
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01723.x
Subject(s) - famine , starvation , george (robot) , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , agriculture , development economics , political science , economic history , economics , geography , history , law , biology , archaeology , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , art history , endocrinology , algorithm
The widespread starvation in Africa has been largely blamed on enduring drought, but Ghanaian George Ayittey (right), Professor of Economics at Bloomsburg State College, reveals how Africa's food problems have been created government interference with the agricultural meyhods that have fed her for centuries.457