Dutch Research Team Recounts the Long-Term Effects of Starvation

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Humanitarian aid groups are reporting “unprecedented” levels of starvation for over 2 million people in Gaza, after nearly eight months of Israeli military bombardment and blockades. Another 5 million people are estimated to face “acute” food shortage in Haiti between March and June, and according to the United Nations, the threat of famine looms for 18 million people in east Africa as Sudan enters its second year of civil war. These hunger crises could have long-lasting effects; according to biologist and early development specialist Tessa Roseboom, the impacts of near starvation are likely to be experienced by generations to come. Her research focuses on people who were born during or shortly after the Dutch “Hunger Winter,” a result of German blockades in the final months of World War II. We speak with Roseboom about her research and its implications for people experiencing starvation in current conflicts around the world. Guests: Abby Maxman, president and CEO, Oxfam America Dr. Tessa Roseboom, professor of early development and health, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:19.8	All of Gaza's more than 2 million residents are facing acute levels of hunger or worse,
1:25.1	according to the Food Security Information Network.
1:28.0	In Sudan, the vulnerable are also beginning to die of starvation, has some 20 million
1:33.0	face severe food insecurity.
1:35.8	Extreme hunger has both immediate and, according to my guest, Tessa Roseboom, very long-term
1:41.3	consequences.
1:42.6	Roseboom's research on Dutch children born during famine at the end of World War II
1:46.9	finds the impact of starvation can last generations. We look at what the research tells us about how we can
1:53.9	and must respond to conflict-driven hunger around the world.
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