Daniel Maxwell is Professor Emeritus, The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. From 2017 until the end of 2025 he was the Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security at Tufts and in 2016-2017, the Acting Director of the Feinstein International Center—an institute researching humanitarian crises and populations at risk. He is the author, with Nisar Majid, of Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures (2016, Oxford University Press).
Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the war in Iran highlight in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, factors that are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis.
July 22, 2026
