Project:
Video:
Famine
Foretold
This video segment highlights the “politics of famine.”
1. What does this phrase mean?
2. What are the consequences of defining the conditions
in Africa as famine as opposed to something else?
3. In your opinion, how might the problem of hunger and
starvation be solved?
4. How is food sometimes used as a weapon?
5. Is the video valid considering more recent “famines”
in Somalia and the Sudan?
The video mentions the conditions that contribute to the
famine: drought, poverty, civil war, international war, despotic
govts, large national debt, declining trade, mismanaged development, &
decrepit transportation systems.
6. Which of these may be considered an effect of
globalization? (List them)
7. Explain the how the effects you have listed are
caused by globalization.
8. Could different globalization policies fix them?
How?
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