Oxfam has launched an appeal to prevent 13 million people starving in east Africa. The head of Oxfam Scotland explains what else the charity and the rest of the world needs to do to avert the crisis. What are the underlying causes of gross inequalities of wealth in Africa? Issues around how trade rules operate to benefit rich northern countries and to the detriment of poor southern countries. There is lack of investment in small-scale agricult ure in developing countries and lack of global investment – the world needs six million teachers. Why has Oxfam launched an appeal if we haven't reached 1984 levels of famine? We have an opportunity to prevent it happening again. The money we are asking for now is alerting the British public to the threat. We are planning on not letting it get to that point. Why did the United Nations...
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