Affiliation:
1. Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, Boston;
2. Centre for Humanitarian Change, Nairobi
Abstract
Famine means destitution, increased severe malnutrition, disease, excess death
and the breakdown of institutions and social norms. Politically, it means a
failure of governance – a failure to provide the most basic of
protections. Because of both its human and political meanings,
‘famine’ can be a shocking term. This is turn makes the analysis
– and especially declaration – of famine a very sensitive subject.
This paper synthesises the findings from six case studies of the analysis of
extreme food insecurity and famine to identify the political constraints to data
collection and analysis, the ways in which these are manifested, and emergent
good practice to manage these influences. The politics of information and
analysis are the most fraught where technical capacity and data quality are the
weakest. Politics will not be eradicated from analysis but can and must be
better managed.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Cited by
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