Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and Response

by Helen Young

Over the years Oxfam has been involved in a wide variety of health-related projects. The Practical Health Guides draw on this experience to put forward ideas on best practice in the provision of health care and services in developing countries. Where people are suffering from food scarcity or famine, the obvious response seems to be food aid. This may indeed be necessary, but handing out food may not be the best solution, and other actions could be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0855981458
• ISBN13: 9780855981457
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxfam
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"