Projektnummer

0057722

Zusammenfassung

The fellowship aims at providing a first in-depth analysis of the social, political and economic factors that have led to the endemic food crisis in Eastern Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Northern Somalia. In the nineteenth century, pastoralist communities in this region became incorporated into a unified Red Sea grain market supplied primarily by Egypt and India. Serels' preliminary research demonstrates that the subsequent intensification of long-distance trade in food stuffs limited the economic strategies practiced by various African communities and helped fuel a set of exploitative ...