Africa
Famine also caused by bad policies
IPN Opinion article
Some claim that East Africa's looming famine is caused by drought, population or climate change, but the real cause is government policies which hinder subsistence farmers.
Food security in East Africa
IPN News coverage
On World Food Day (16 October), Alec van Gelder discusses the drought in East Africa, and how African governments' trade restrictions inhibit food security
Starving for Freedom
IPN Opinion article
Blame famine on trade restrictions, not on climate change or a lack of Western aid.
East Africa's drought
IPN News coverage
Kendra Okonski discusses how government policy exacerbated the drought in East Africa in late 2009
Music, money and growth
IPN Opinion article
African music is loved all over the world but African musicians live in poverty: the few stars record and publish abroad. These authors explain how Africans can develop that talent into commercial success as the impoverished city of Nashville did in the 1920s, becoming a musical and economic dynamo.
