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Webliography:  Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
Famine

• World Food Programme
  www.wfp.org/*
  Frontline United Nations Agency whose mission is to provide food for life, growth, and work
• China: The People Bomb
  www.msnbc.com/news/307034.asp*
  Explains China’s growing population, along with additional information about population increases and ways to deal with them
• International Famine Center 
  www.ucc.ie/famine/*
  An international page with links to other famine and famine relief organizations worldwide
• El Nino Update
  www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home.html*
  Complete information about El Niño, how it works. Plus, information about the weather phenomenon La Niña. Includes information about how they affect rain patterns, and affect drought

• Complex-City
  www.healthycities.org/complexcity.pdf* (PDF; 28 pages)
  This paper presents a disaster scenario because it is at times of crisis that people become highly motivated to create working relationships. The disaster shows that sustaining the health of a community goes beyond medical care. Health is also a matter of public health educators, city planners, the media, environmentalists, and other community-level actors. The different perspectives presented in this paper will illustrate how their decisions and actions can enhance the health of the community.

• Irish Potato Famine
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_potato_famine*
  Encyclopedia article from which you can pull information about the government role in the Irish potato famine.
• U.S. Prepares 'Big-time' Response to Famine
  www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/05/01/famine-relief.htm*
  Article written in 2002 about the famine in southern Africa

• Economist Wins Nobel Prize for Work on Famines and Poverty
  www.wright.edu/~tdung/sen.htm*
  1998 New York Times article about the Nobel Prize winning economist. Amartya Sen whose work focuses on relieving famine.
• Economists (and an Anthropologist) to the Rescue
  www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/033100/DL_econ.html*
  Article about University of California at Davis professors who lend their expertise to Asian countries suffering trade woes, famine and currency irregularities.
• Economists for Peace and Security
  www.epsusa.org/*
  The Web site of an organization of economists, headed by James K. Galbraith, dedicated to inform the public about the economic costs of conflict, including hunger.

• Economists (and an Anthropologist) to the Rescue
  www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/033100/DL_econ.html*
  Article about University of California at Davis professors lend their expertise to Asian countries suffering trade woes, famine and currency irregularities.
• Effects of Famine: Short Stature Evident in North Korean Generation
  http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=korea14&date=20040214*
  Results of study by anthropologists.
• Report Says Resolving Violent Conflicts Key to Ending Hunger; Cites Sudan Famine
  www.ifpri.org/pressrel/060398.htm*
  Article explaining how, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), creating a hunger-free world in the Twenty-First Century will require prevention and resolution of violent conflicts, such as the one in Sudan, as well as concerted efforts to rebuild war-torn societies.

• Feast and Famine
  www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999427*
  2001 article about the impact that agricultural practices have on future food production  
• 1970-85 Famine Based on Pollution
  www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/21/world/main515765.shtml* 
  Article explaining how scientists believe that the famine in Africa during the seventies and eighties was caused by pollution

• Doctors Without Borders
  www.dwb.org/*
  Nobel-prize winning group of emergency-based doctors who respond to refugee and famine crises across the world. Links to other organizations and fact-based sites.

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