New to this edition
Readership: General readers who recollect the events of Live Aid and those with an interest in Ethiopia and Africa's needs. Those engaged directly with aid agencies or NGOs and charities.
Peter Gill, Journalist and documentary film-maker specialising in development issues. Author of Drops in the Ocean, A Year in the Death of Africa and Body Count
Peter Gill has specialised in developing world affairs for most of his career, an interest that began as a VSO teacher in Sudan and his first visit to Ethiopia in the 1960s. In the 1970s he was South Asia and Middle East Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. For TV Eye and This Week, he made films in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation, in Gaza and Lebanon, in South Africa under apartheid and in Uganda, Sudan, and Ethiopia during the famine years. He made Mr Famine for ITV about corruption at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and Clare's New World about Clare Short, DFID and its first White Paper Eliminating World Poverty. From 1999- 2003, he headed the India office of the BBC World Service Trust. His first project partnered Indian broadcasters in leprosy campaigning that brought 200,000 patients forward for cure, this led to a £5 million project on HIV/Aids awareness. He has is author of Drops in the Ocean, A Year in the Death of Africa and Body Count.
"Gill does great justice to this ever-pertinent issue." - Maria Kuecken, London School of Economics Review of Books
Introduction: For Richer, for Poorer Part I: THEN 1: Return to Korem 2: The Famine Trail 3: Hunger as a Weapon 4: Rebels with a Cause Part II: TRANSITIONS 5: Economic Warfare 6: How to Prevent a Famine 7: Population Matters Part III: NOW 8: 2005 and All That 9: Down with Democracy? 10: Free Association 11: Pastoral Affairs Part IV: PROSPECTS 12: Spoiling the Party 13: Enter the Dragon 14: Us and Them
