Drought does not equal famine

Author(s)
Carr, E.
Publication language
English
Date published
21 Jul 2011
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Disasters, Drought, Food and nutrition, Food security

After reading a lot of news and blog posts on the situation in the Horn of Africa, I feel the need to make something clear: the drought in the Horn of Africa is not the cause of the famine we are seeing take shape in southern Somalia. We are being pounded by a narrative of this famine that more or less points to the failure of seasonal rains as its cause . . . which I see as a horrible abdication of responsibility for the human causes of this tragedy.