Maia Baldauf is a humanitarian practitioner with nearly a decade of experience in the aid sector across multiple regions. She has worked on crisis response with international NGOs primarily in Southwest Asia/Middle East, including Yemen between 2015 and 2020. She holds a Master’s in Environment, Politics, and Development from SOAS University of London and a Bachelor’s in International Development, Public Health, and Sustainability Studies from the University of Minnesota.
Maia's latest contributions
Cultivating an Equitable Recovery: A Political Ecology Approach to Agricultural Interventions in Yemen
Yemen faces grave ecological risks and agricultural challenges that imperil its long-term stability if left inadequately addressed. The multi-disciplinary analytical framework of political ecology – … Read more
Reframing Famine: New Approaches and Food System Accountability in Yemen
This paper critically analyzes ‘famine’ and its function in the Yemeni context, considering how its technical definition and operational frameworks – which have become gatekeepers to famine … Read more