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Famine in Somalia (Paperback)
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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 nearly a year
earlier. 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 donors counter-terrorism policies
led to cuts and criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A
major disaster resulted from the production and market failures
precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine
itself was the result of the failure to quickly respond to these
events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyses the
famine: the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led
to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected
by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods.It also
examines the humanitarian response, including actors that had not
previously been particularly visible in Somalia-from Turkey, the
Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide.
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