TY - BOOK AU - Olivier de Sardan,Jean-Pierre TI - Humanitarian Aid or Development Aid? The 2005 “Famine” in Niger PY - 2011///. N1 - 90 N2 - In Africa, “getting a share of development aid” is at the heart of a large number of strategies, and humanitarian aid is included in that. However, none are able to offer a durable solution to the chronic problems that the continent is facing. This case study, conducted in Niger following the 2005 “famine,” which resulted in a large international response, shows a very different reality from the one usually presented by the media. Local coping strategies have been most important. External assistance has provoked misunderstanding and friction UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2011-3-page-415?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -