Conflict and disasters

Originally produced to accompany the Oxfam Feeding Kit, at the time of the large-scale famine in Ethiopia in the 1970s, this book has been expanded into a comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations. The first part of this book describes the assessment and monitoring of the nutritional needs […]

Millions of the world’s poorest people are threatened by freak weather conditions. This year’s unprecedented climatic extremes brought drought to the rich world hitting agriculture in Australia and South Africa particularly hard and substantially reducing the 1983 grain harvest in the USA. England experienced its hottest July on record.   In the poor world a […]

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime said: “It was inconceivable to us that we would all be left to perish. Every time I heard heavy artillery I thought: The UN is coming at last.” It was not the UN, but Vietnamese forces. Since then the Kampucheans have struggled to rebuild their country. For reasons […]