Title: Cultivating Disaster: Local and International Contexts Affecting the Provision of Food in Natural Disasters
Abstract: Michael Doyle steps away from the organizational fracas that so frequently accompanies analyses of international disaster relief, and views the issue of preparedness from the perspective of one particular problem: the availability of food. Food has its own technical requirements as well as its own politics, a fact that was forcefully brought home during the major periods of shortage in the first half of the 1970s. Professor Doyle argues for a new look at relief and development priorities at both the national and international levels. However, consistent with the emphases of the New International Economic Order, the focus of his argument is upon a form of self-sufficiency that reaches more deeply into the economic fabrics of the developing countries than does an infrastructure adequate to manage imported relief commodities.
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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