| | This number of ROAPE is devoted to the twin issues of war and famine in Africa - more specifically to famine and how war, among a number of factors, impinges on it. While the attention of the northern hemisphere has been focused on the increasing threat of nuclear annihilation, the population of much of Africa has been concerned with staying off famine. Compared with the immediate horrors of starving to death, the threat of nuclear destruction seems remote and more a matter for the superpowers. In fact, the issue of increasing nuclear militarism in the 'north' is highly relevant to the future food security of the world. There is little doubt that the southern hemisphere would suffer greatly from the 'nuclear winter' produced by nuclear war in the 'north' - with the reduction in heat and light received from the sun having disastrous consequences for food production and thus producing world wide famine. |
