For much of its recent history, Sudan has been beset by devastating
famines that have killed countless people and powerfully reshaped
its society. However, as this historical study of food insecurity
in the region shows, there was no necessary correlation between
natural disasters, decreased crop yields, and famine in Sudan.
Rather, repeated food crises since the late nineteenth century were
the result of inter-generational, exploitative processes that
transferred the resources of victim communities to the state and to
a small group of non-state elites. This dynamic fundamentally
transformed the social, political, and economic structures
underpinning Sudanese society and prevented many communities from
securing necessary subsistence. On one hand, food crises
facilitated the British-led conquest of Sudan and subsequently
allowed British imperial agents, acting through the Anglo-Egyptian
government, to seize control of many of Sudan's natural resources.
At the same time, however, a number of indigenous elites were also
able to position themselves so as to further augment their prestige
and economic wealth. At independence, these elites were handed
control of the state and, in the years that followed, they
continued many of the policies that had impoverished their
countrymen.
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