Famine in Somalia : competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12 / Daniel Maxwell, Nisar Maji...
Famine in Somalia : competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12 / Daniel Maxwell, Nisar Maji...
Famine in Somalia : competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12 / Daniel Maxwell, Nisar Majid.
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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G 2018/2001
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 269 pages : maps, charts ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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: un...
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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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 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 ha...
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Famine in Somalia : competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12 / Daniel Maxwell, Nisar Majid.
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Competing imperatives, collective failures, 2011-12
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-260) and index.
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G 2018/2001
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74VKVNbqWBDO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVNbqWBDO
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ISBN
9780190499389
0190499389
DDC
363.8
MMS ID
991024162508002626
