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Special Project--Feast Or Famine: Issues, Problems, And Procedures Relating To Massive Relief Efforts With A Focus On The African Crisis, Peggy F. Brandenburg, Susan N. Burgess, Scott N. Greenspun, Sharon M. Janarek, Patrick M. Thomas, Linda L. Kotis

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

"The profound promise of our era is that for the first time we may have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger. Therefore, today we must proclaim a bold objective--that within a decade no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread, and that no human being's future and capacities will be stunted by malnutrition."

One decade later, the ongoing drought and famine in Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique and other African countries cruelly portray the failure of that promise. Each year, millions of dollars worth of aid, much of …