Niger: behind a food crisis

Is the worst famine in the world's poorest country the mere result of extraordinary natural disasters or are there man-driven policies behind it? What brings over three million people in the world's poorest country on the brink of starvation? Besides exceptional poor rain and swarms of locusts, what are the roots of Niger's recurrent food crisis? Why does the UN constantly receive its funds after TV troupes arrive on the ground? And why does a country not have the resources nor the social services needed to help a population in dire need of aid? Is poverty inevitable? Through a thorough investigation and with the aid of animations, the documentary looks for the answers to a problem that affects not only Africa. Replies which go under the name of debt, structural adjustment programmes and privatizations...

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Film & Animation

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• Niger
• famine
• documentary
• africa
• wfp
• oakland
• fipa
• crisis
• food
• starvation
• oyibo