David Keen

David Keen is Reader in Complex Emergencies at the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.


Author of…

Cover of The Benefits of Famine

The Benefits of Famine

A Political Economy of Famine & Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983–9

The conflict in Darfur had a precursor in Sudan’s famines of the 1980s and 1990s. David Keen’s The Benefits of Famine presents a new and chilling interpretation of the causes of war-induced famine.…

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