{"id":3036,"date":"2011-08-09T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2011-08-07T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T00:12:10","slug":"links-about-the-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3036","title":{"rendered":"Links About the Famine in the Horn of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am generally not a fan of bullet points, even though they are apparently the one tried, tested, and true method of increasing blog readership. In this case, I am willing to use them because there is simply too many interesting things to read and watch about the current famine in the Horn of Africa. Here goes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you only check out one of these links, spend 25 minutes watching <a title=\"Inside Story: Behind East Africa's Famine\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/programmes\/insidestory\/2011\/08\/20118710209703235.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Al-Jazeera English segment<\/a>, which was sent to me by my colleague <a title=\"@donaldhtaylorjr\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/donaldhtaylorjr\" target=\"_blank\">Don Taylor<\/a>. Bottom line: The problem is local politics, not necessarily a lack of food to go around.<\/li>\n<li>A shorter version of the same argument <a title=\"Behind Africa\u2019s Famine, More than Just Drought: Famine Isn\u2019t Inevitable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/behind-africas-famine-more-than-just-drought-famine-isnt-inevitable\/2011\/07\/28\/gIQAJCrsfI_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, in a Washington Post op-ed by Bill Moseley, who is also in the Al-Jazeera segment linked to above.<\/li>\n<li>Owen Barder <a title=\"Famine and Drought\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owen.org\/blog\/4818\" target=\"_blank\">makes a similar point<\/a> and adds that development aid does work in these circumstances, pointing to Ethiopia&#8217;s safety net program as an example.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, the Center for Global Development&#8217;s Charles Kenny <a title=\"Famine is a Crime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2011\/07\/25\/famine_is_a_crime\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> in <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> about how famine in our time is a crime, but he further points to weak or nonexistent infrastructure such as roads &#8212; the existence of which are the result of political will anyway &#8212; as a cause of famine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am generally not a fan of bullet points, even though they are apparently the one tried, tested, and true method of increasing blog readership.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3036\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links About the Famine in the Horn of Africa<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famine","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-MY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}