Tag: Famine

  • Nation & World

    Rebuilding Ukraine after ‘great de-developer’

    Worse than chemical and nuclear weapons may be the utter and widespread destruction of conventional arms, a Harvard humanitarian expert said.

    4 minutes
    Michael VanRooyen,
  • Nation & World

    None if by sea

    Radcliffe fellow and former director of advocacy and communications for Doctors Without Borders helped rescue 77,000 Mediterranean immigrants over four years — until politicians shut down the operation.

    11 minutes
    MY Phoenix, a search and rescue ship and a Swedish coast guard ship rescue 450 people.
  • Nation & World

    Long-ago freeze carries into the present

    Harvard researchers contributed to a study identifying a 124-year freeze running from the sixth century into the seventh, with widely disruptive effects.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In the end, Somali famine preventable

    Despite historical links to natural disasters, the modern world’s global food web means that famines today are created more by man than by nature. Officials say a famine just ending in Somalia was caused by a failure of international early warning systems and the local Al-Shabaab militia blocking food aid.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Why cooking counts

    In a first-of-its-kind study, Harvard researchers have shown that cooked meat provides more energy than raw meat, a finding that challenges the current food labeling system and suggests humans are evolutionarily adapted to take advantage of the benefits of cooking.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Food, sex conference draws SRO crowds

    Money. Race. Health. War. That list of potent topics summarizes the first four years of conferences on gender sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. This year’s gender conference (April 12 and 13) added a fifth topic: food, which by some accounts has elements of all the others combined.

    7 minutes