Pardee Director Quoted in Global Times on the Horn of Africa Famine

Prof. James McCann, newly appointed Director, ad interim, of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, was quoted in Global Times about the Horn of Africa famine. Prof. McCann opined on the severity and why its impact was worse than before.

He also spoke about the need for longer term solutions for the famine:

“”Food is needed, but relief is no solution in the longer term. The question was one of poverty and lack of ‘entitlements’ to food. Political disruptions meant that the food was not distributed due to lack of roads, local violence, rural poverty.”

Read the article here.

Boston University Prof. James McCann, a well-known scholar on the history of the food, ecology and agriculture of Africa, has been appointed Director, ad interim of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future as of August 15.

Find out more about Prof. McCann here.