Famine in Somalia

• Verfasst von: Maxwell, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Famine in Somalia
• Titelzusatz: competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12
• Verf.angabe: Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063855-9
• DOI: doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190499389.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• K10plus-PPN: 1655952676
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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.