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Famine Due to Political Policies

Crysten GlaweFSHN 342: World Food Issues

Dr. Clark Ford and Erica Fuchs

+ What is famine?

Widespread and extreme scarcity of food applicable to any species, which results in malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.

+What causes famine?

Natural disasters Floods, drought, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.

Over population

Poor quality of health facilities

Governments’ poor management of resources Corruption, special interests, etc.

Political Policies

+Famines Due to Political Policies

Ukrainian SSR Famine (1932-1933)

North Korea Famine (1995-1997)

Great Chinese Famine (1958-1961)

North Korean farmers work in their fields outside the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, February 25, 2008. Time Magazine: (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty)

+Ukrainian SSR Famine: 1932-1933

Collectivization

1932 Bumper Crop

Causes Extreme political policy

changes Genocide

Holodomor Archives (2006)

Death toll: 7,000,000Ukrainian SSR Coat of Arms

+North Korean Famine: 1995-1997 Agricultural Industrialization

Free Trade with Soviet Union

Causes: Collapse of Soviet Union Floods

Military Importance

Death Toll: 600,000 200,000-3,500,000

North Korean Army

+Great Chinese Famine: 1958-1961

“Great Leap Forward”

Collectivization Mandated communes

New Agricultural Production Techniques Deep soil plowing Close planting

Iron and steel production

Urban rights for grain consumption

Commune leaders to report grain output

Chinese Communes

+Great Chinese Famine: 1958-1961 People’s Republic of China

Abnormal weather patterns followed by droughts and floods

Death Toll: Chinese Government: 15,000,000 Researchers: 36,000,000

Causes Chinese Government: Result of a series of natural disasters Researchers: Result of massive institutional and policy

changes

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RightsJustice

Utilitarianism

Ethics

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Conclusions“If history teaches us anything, it is that history rarely teaches anything”

+Bibliography

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