Famine: Lessons Learned

Author(s)
Devereux, S., Sida, L. and Nelis, T.
Publication language
English
Pages
34pp
Date published
01 Sep 2017
Type
Lessons papers
Keywords
Food aid, Food security, Response and recovery
Countries
Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen, Somalia
Organisations
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Famine: Lessons Learned was produced as the world was responding to four potential famines simultaneously – in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen and Somalia.

Much has been written and researched on famine, and many lessons on how to best prevent and respond to famine have been learned the hard way. This paper therefore draws on lessons learned from the last 30-plus years of famine crises and response, going back to famines in Ethiopia and Sudan in the 1980s, up to the most recent famine in Somalia in 2011.