Research Paper On Somalia's Famine
Name: Daniel Afonso de Solar
Student number: 08753644
Understanding Famine:
Famine is usually understood to be a decline in food availability. A sudden, sharp reduction in food in any particular geographic locale usually results in widespread hunger and famine. Understanding Somalia’s famine or any famine goes far beyond the traditional generalist statement mentioned above. A complex environment influences Somalia’s current and previous famines. Political instability, an undefined economic frame and armed conflict are almost always constant throughout Somalia’s history. Somalia has been a battleground in which 300000-400000 people have died as a result of its civil war that has been ongoing since 1991. Somalia's other war is hunger …show more content…
Somalia is a failed state its the international recognized government, the TFG (Transitional Federal Government) in control of only a small part of the country, there is other 7 factions which controls different areas of the country, with a terrorist organization ruling the largest area. A political chaos where there is no stability whatsoever with uncertainty being a constant. While 14 reconciliation attempts have taken place, none of them have been successful. When taking into consideration the countries' politics, government policies or government institutions are out of place in someway as politics and institutions are non-existent on a broader sense and are unable to deal in any way with the hunger problem. It is this absence of a defined political system or clear regional frame, which makes famine an easier event to take place in Somalia. With several armed factions trying to seek power and kill the other there is no time for policies, achievement of millennium development goals or an economic framework. Political instability in Somalia makes access to the country also difficult for humanitarian aid as the power structure and regional distribution of power are chaotic and unclear, you don't or cannot know who is in charge so an special approach is …show more content…
Famine fluctuates with war, so famine is an expected event, that’s comes and goes. As long as there will be civil war. With the current division of the country and the current uprising of a Al Shabaab makes the nation a war -zone with almost 8 front lines. This is all we have to understand about Somalia's famine: a process that has no solution with a war in place. Countries in Africa that are not in war find it difficult to approach poverty and development issues. Somalia, a country listed as last in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International in 2009 and ranked next to last between Iraq and Afghanistan by the Institute for Economy and Peace on its Global Peace Index (GPI), it is easy to assume that this country has a long way to go, to even think about the famine as an approachable issue in the current situation. War is just the engine of this chaotic situation within Somalia where a vicious circle is the non-exit spiral of hunger and
Student number: 08753644
Understanding Famine:
Famine is usually understood to be a decline in food availability. A sudden, sharp reduction in food in any particular geographic locale usually results in widespread hunger and famine. Understanding Somalia’s famine or any famine goes far beyond the traditional generalist statement mentioned above. A complex environment influences Somalia’s current and previous famines. Political instability, an undefined economic frame and armed conflict are almost always constant throughout Somalia’s history. Somalia has been a battleground in which 300000-400000 people have died as a result of its civil war that has been ongoing since 1991. Somalia's other war is hunger …show more content…
Somalia is a failed state its the international recognized government, the TFG (Transitional Federal Government) in control of only a small part of the country, there is other 7 factions which controls different areas of the country, with a terrorist organization ruling the largest area. A political chaos where there is no stability whatsoever with uncertainty being a constant. While 14 reconciliation attempts have taken place, none of them have been successful. When taking into consideration the countries' politics, government policies or government institutions are out of place in someway as politics and institutions are non-existent on a broader sense and are unable to deal in any way with the hunger problem. It is this absence of a defined political system or clear regional frame, which makes famine an easier event to take place in Somalia. With several armed factions trying to seek power and kill the other there is no time for policies, achievement of millennium development goals or an economic framework. Political instability in Somalia makes access to the country also difficult for humanitarian aid as the power structure and regional distribution of power are chaotic and unclear, you don't or cannot know who is in charge so an special approach is …show more content…
Famine fluctuates with war, so famine is an expected event, that’s comes and goes. As long as there will be civil war. With the current division of the country and the current uprising of a Al Shabaab makes the nation a war -zone with almost 8 front lines. This is all we have to understand about Somalia's famine: a process that has no solution with a war in place. Countries in Africa that are not in war find it difficult to approach poverty and development issues. Somalia, a country listed as last in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) by Transparency International in 2009 and ranked next to last between Iraq and Afghanistan by the Institute for Economy and Peace on its Global Peace Index (GPI), it is easy to assume that this country has a long way to go, to even think about the famine as an approachable issue in the current situation. War is just the engine of this chaotic situation within Somalia where a vicious circle is the non-exit spiral of hunger and