War-induced Starvation Causes More Death than Direct Violence

The LA Progressive chats with Andrea Mazzarino, co-founder of Brown University's Costs of War Project.

In a piece written by Mazzarino and published by the LA Progressive, Mazzarino makes the case that war-induced hunger and insufficient medical care indirectly kills more civilians than direct violence. She says that many war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on large portions of a population causing significant loss of life.

Andrea Mazzarino, the co-editor of the book War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, makes that case that armed conflict disrupts food supplies as warring factions divert resources to arms production and their militaries while destroying the kinds of infrastructure that enable societies to feed themselves. Governments, too, sometimes use starvation as a weapon of war. 

Andrea Mazzarino's articles can be found here: https://www.laprogressive.com/author/andrea-mazzarino Dick Price and Sharon Kyle are the founders of LA Progressive