A Famine Revisited: Reflections on the Famine 1984 – 1985

This is the 40th anniversary year of Cumbria Development Education Centre (CDEC) and also the 40th anniversary of the ‘biblical’ Ethiopian Famine of 1984-85. To mark both Joe will revisit the famine, in which he worked for Oxfam, in order to understand the complex causes of such disasters – social, economic, political and environmental. He will look at the global response to the famine and to its images; put the famine into context, and ask questions about population and food supply. He will end by examining how climate change is already playing a part in famines and will play an increasing part in the famines of the future and ask what our responses should be.