Its analysis concludes: "Although the willingness of much of the world to address these 'famine' conditions in Niger is appropriate and welcome, without a similar commitment and prolonged attention to addressing the chronic issues that are at the heart of the current localised crises, the same problems will re-occur again soon."
It may not be a famine, but it is an ongoing development crisis, with the need for sustained attention, even when the cameras move on somewhere else.
In another careful analysis, the Overseas Development Institute says:
"For those who are dying from acute malnutrition and related diseases, the debate about whether there have been enough deaths to justify the famine label, and the extent to which this exceeds the normal hungry season mortality rate is not helpful.
"Avoiding the famine label has often been convenient for those seeking to justify slow or failed responses."
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