Authors / Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation and research professor at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He has worked on famine, conflict, and related issues since the 1980s as a researcher and practitioner. Books include The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (2015), Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (2017), and New Pandemics, Old Politics (2021).

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Famine’s Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

Alex de Waal October 6, 2025