Gary Paul Nabhan is a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist, and essayist. The author of the new release Where Our Food Comes From as well as Why Some Like It Hot, Coming Home to Eat, and many other books and articles, he has been honored with a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and The John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. Founder and facilitator of the Renewing America's Food Traditions collaborative, he is currently a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. See www.garynabhan.com to track his lecture and photo exhibit schedules.

Blog Entries by Gary Paul Nabhan

Responding to Famine in the Horn of Africa: Learn from Past Mistakes

Posted October 1, 2008 | 04:37 PM (EST)


In mid-September, John Holmes of United Nations announced that the mounting famine in Ethiopia and other countries in the Horn of Africa may dwarf the severity of similar famines in the 1980s and 1990s. While humanitarian concern and speedy on-ground action are surely justified, we must ask why this famine...

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