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Perspective with Alison Smith
Food Crises and Famine - March 5, 2017
The week on Perspective: Food Crises and Famine - The catastrophic consequence of conflict. Alison speaks to two journalists about the situation on the ground in Juba, South Sudan, where the United Nations recently declared there was a famine. Grant McDonald is the South Sudan Program Manager and Emmanuel Tombe is the in-country director in South Sudan for Journalists for Human Rights. Kimberly Flowers, Director of the Global Food Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington speaks to Alison about broader issues of food security as it relates to crises in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen. We hear from Fatima Shehu, the Director of the Network of Civil Society Organizations of Borno, in north Eastern Nigeria, who spoke at a humanitarian conference on Nigeria and the Lake Chad Region last week in Oslo, Norway. Yannick Pouchalan, Country Director, Nigeria, Action Against Hunger, discusses the challenges on the ground for aid workers in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. Alison speaks to Kate Sadler, Director of Programs for Valid International, an organization whose mission is to improve global health and nutrition. Sadler discusses the long-term health effects of severe malnutrition.