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The Famine in Famine Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno*
Affiliation:
Section Leader, Regional and Policy Information, US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC 20005-4788
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For all the insights reported in the preceding article by Vestal, the author leaves the impression that he is dissatisfied that our current level of understanding adequately addresses the complexity of famine. Vestal's article ranges widely across the research on famine, provoking a revisitation of some controversies and inviting further thought on the world's level of famine vulnerability and what researchers might do to reduce that vulnerability.

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