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Analysis: What is a famine?

IPC on IRIN, Johannesburg, 13 May 2010

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Articles

DATE
May 2010

LOCATION
Global

Aid agencies and donors have warned of the possibility of a famine in Niger, evoking images of the last food crisis in the Sahelian country in 2005. Some media organizations have already pronounced the current crisis a famine. So, what exactly is a famine?

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