Nisar Majid

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Nisar Majid’s initial working experience was in food security and livelihoods analysis and training, frequently within the early warning/information systems of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. He has also participated in a number of technical and organizational reviews and evaluations. In 2013 he completed his PhD, which explored the agency of Somali ‘diaspora’ members, through the various organizations and technologies – NGOs, informal networks, a mosque and community center, a website and mobile telephony – they utilize in order to pursue their developmental and political goals, in the UK and in the Somali territories. Nisar is currently working closely with the FIC on an 18-month study investigating the lessons learned from the recent ‘crisis’ in the Horn of Africa.

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Dan Maxwell and LSE researchers publish in Aljazeera on potential famine in Somalia

Dan Maxwell teamed up with Nisar Majid and two other London School of Economics Research Associates to publish an opinion piece on Aljazeera on January 8, 2022. The authors implore…

Dan Maxwell and Nisar Magid’s book on Somalia Famine reviewed in Time Literary Supplement

In the January 30, 2018 edition of the Times Literary Supplement, The Fletcher School’s Alex de Waal reviewed Famine in Somalia by Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid among other books on…

Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid’s book reviewed in the Journal of African History

In the Journal of African History Jonathan Benthall reviewed Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid‘s book Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, which was published in 2016. In the book, Dan and…

Daniel Maxwell and colleagues discuss famine, conflict, and political indifference in the BMJ

Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid joined Andrew Seal, Peter Hailey, and Rob Bailey to publish an editorial in the BMJ on May 10, 2017. The editorial, “Famine, conflict, and political…

News sources cite Dan Maxwell famine research in light of current and potential famine declarations

In light of the famine declaration in South Sudan and potential famine declarations in Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria, several news sources have cited Feinstein research. In IRIN’s March 30,…

Dan Maxwell and colleagues publish on the Somalia Famine in Food Policy

Dan Maxwell, Nisar Majid, Guhad Adan, Khalif Abdirahman, and Janet Kim published their article “Facing famine: Somali experiences in the famine of 2011” in Food Policy journal December 2016 issue….

Book on Somalia Famine receives high praise from LSE

On September 23, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published a review of Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011 – 12. The book, edited by Feinstein’s acting…

Dan Maxwell discusses his recent book about the Somalia Famine

Dan Maxwell recently discussed his book, Somalia Famine: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures 2011-2012, on several occasions.  In his remarks at Tufts, he noted that “while Somalia may be considered old…

FEINSTEIN PUBLICATIONS

A Somali girl walks down a road at sunset in an IDP camp near the town of Jowhar.

Another Humanitarian (and Political) Crisis in Somalia in 2022

This report rings the alarm about likely famine in Somalia in 2022 by comparing the situation today with the situation before and during the famine in 2011.

Evidence Brief: Managing Acute Malnutrition in Children in Humanitarian Emergencies

This is an evidence brief, accompanying the full systematic review on acute malnutrition in humanitarian emergencies.

Recovery, Relapse, and Episodes of Default in the Management of Acute Malnutrition in Children in Humanitarian Emergencies

This systematic review represents the first attempt to apply systematic review methodology to establish the relationships between recovery and relapse and between default rates and repeated episodes of default or relapse in the management of acute malnutrition in children in humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries.

Relationships between recovery and relapse, and default and repeated episodes of default in the management of acute malnutrition in children in humanitarian emergencies: A systematic review protocol

This protocol details the methodology for an evidence synthesis on acute malnutrition in humanitarian crises. The evidence synthesis asks: “What is the evidence on the relationship between recovery and/or cure…

Narratives of Famine

This paper is important reading for anyone working in or on Somalia because it presents the Somalian famine of 2011 from the perspective of those who lived through it in…

Facing Famine

In 2011–12, Somalia experienced the worst famine of the twenty-first century. Since then, research on the famine has focused almost exclusively on the external response, the reasons for the delay…

The Somalia Famine of 2011-2012

The Somalia famine of 2011 was to date the worst famine of the 21st Century. In retrospect the disaster should never have reached the severity that it did, but the famine developed…

Another Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia?

After two reasonably good years of recovery, 2014 appears to be shaping up as a difficult year for Somalia. Donors and agencies are ringing alarm bells about deteriorating conditions. There…

Lessons Learned from the Somalia Famine and the Greater Horn of Africa Crisis 2011-2012

On July 20, 2011, the UN declared a famine in South Central Somalia, which killed some 260,000 people (Checchi and Robinson 2013). Though Somalia was the worst affected country, the…

Livelihoods-based Drought Response in Ethiopia

This impact assessment aimed to measure the impact of an emergency livestock feed supplementation program implemented by Save the Children US during drought in pastoralist communities in Liben district (Guji…

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