Famine in Somalia : competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12 / Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Daniel G., author.

Majid, Nisar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines--Somalia.

Famines.

Somalia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted in 2010. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while the donors' counter-terrorism policies criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself resulted from failure to respond quickly to these events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyzes the famine.

Contents:

Introduction

The problem of famines

Somalia and external intervention in the Greater Horn of Africa: 1970-2010

The worsening crisis, the delay, and the impact of the famine

"No one to cry to" : a Somali narrative of the famine

Diversification, flexibility, and social connectedness: understanding the narratives

The response of the (Western) international "humanitarian community"

The shifting international dynamics of the humanitarian response

2012-14 and the aftermath of famine

Preventing famine: an unfinished agenda?

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 19, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-063855-9