1981
     Famine, ecology and underdevelopment. In The role of U. S. Universities in International Rural and Agricultural Development, edited by Brooke Schoepf. Tuskegee Institute: Center for Rural Development, pp. 49-56. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1981 (Franke only)
     Mode of production and population patterns: policy implications for West African development. International Journal of Health Services 11(3):361-87.

     Reprinted in Populi: Journal of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities 8(4):8-31. 1981

1981
     Irrigation, irritation. New Internationalist 103:14. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1981
     Africa's other famine. Commonweal 108(13):396-399. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1981
     Cape Verde's anticolonial path. Guardian. 18 March 1981. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1981
      Cape Verde confronted by famine. Guardian. 11 March 1981. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1982
      A question of balance: trouble in the Sahel. New Internationalist 114:20-21, 28. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1982
     Africa: continent in crisis. Anthropology Resource Center Newsletter 6(1):1. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1983
     Agribusiness in Africa. The Global Reporter 1(3):14. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1984 (Franke only)
     Tuareg of West Africa: Five experiments in fourth world development. Antipode 16(2):45-53.

1984
     Bitter harvests. New Internationalist 135:14-15. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1984
     How to protect Africa's environment. The New York Times. 25 December 1984. With Barbara H. Chasin.

1984 (Chasin only)

     Review of Yves Monnier, La Poussier et la Cendre:  Paysages, Dynamiques des Formations Végétales et Stratégies des Sociétés en Afrique de l'Ouest. Canadian Journal of African Studies 18( 1):264-65.

1985 (Franke only)
      Food and famine: looking for answers. Reviews in Anthropology 12(2):42-51. (Review essay of Current Topics in Nutrition and Disease, vol. 10: Malnutrition—Determinants and Consequences, edited by Philip White and Nancy Selvey. 1984. New York: Alan R. Liss; and Famine: Its Causes, Effects, and Management, edited by John R. K. Robson. 1981. New York: Gordon and Breach.)

1986 (Chasin only)
    Sahel Famine: A Social Disaster. Politics and Life Sciences 4(2): 166–67.

1987 (Franke only)
     The effects of colonialism and neocolonialism on the gastronomic patterns of the Third World. In Food and evolution, edited by Marvin Harris and Eric Ross. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 455-79.

1987 (Franke only)
     Power, class and traditional knowledge in Sahel food production. In Studies in Power and Class in Africa, edited by Irving L. Markovitz. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 257-85.