Causas de las crisis alimentarias en Somalia, Sudán y Etiopía entre 1980 y 2015

Abstract

In the study of recent famines, a dominant standpoint prevails characterized by econometric studies in which it is concluded that food crisis in Africa after 1980 are due to: climate-related phenomena, an increase in demography, a rise in the consumption of meat by the emerging Asian countries, the boom of biofuels, the restriction to food exports in important producing countries and usual exporters, the poverty and undernourishment conditions, and military conflict situations. In this orthodox viewpoint of famines, it is not presented as a cause for hunger neither the Structural Adjustment Plans that African countries suffered after 1980, nor the interference of western countries in the warlike conflicts, or the relationship of African governments with the transnational companies of the developed countries...