Nicholas Stockton

May 14, 2024 | scienceopen.com | Mark Duffield |Nicholas Stockton

Contemplating the calamitous state of affairs in the Horn of Africa, and unpersuaded by the solipsistic explanations offered by the international aid system, academia and mainstream journalism, in 2021 we chanced upon some extraordinary trade data in FAOSTAT, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s) public database.

Feb 16, 2024 | theelephant.info | Mark Duffield |Nicholas Stockton

Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. As civil war rages in Sudan, arrangements for December’s COP28 meeting in Dubai have gathered momentum. If there is a link between these events, it is not climate change. More to the point, prior to the Covid pandemic, Sudan and Somalia were together supplying 90% of the animal protein consumed in the otherwise chronically food-insecure Gulf States.

Nov 22, 2023 | roape.net | Mark Duffield |Nicholas Stockton

Mark Duffield and Nicholas Stockton write about the spectacular growth in livestock exports from the Horn of Africa to the urbanising Gulf states, and argue that neoliberalism has transformed the former reciprocity between ‘farmers’ and ‘herders’ into a relation of permanent war. Based on their article in ROAPE – freely available to read below – they argue that the crisis in the Horn is rooted in how the wealth of its peoples is being internationally plundered.

Nov 1, 2023 | tandfonline.com | Mark Duffield |Nicholas Stockton

SUMMARYGiven the current turmoil in the Sahel and Sudan, this debate piece addresses an important absence in the commentary. While self-serving explanations relating to climate change, avaricious generals and entrenched ethnic tensions abound, there is little on the deepening crisis within the agro-pastoral economy that directly affects millions of toiling people across the entire region.