African Food Systems in Crisis: MicroperspectivesRebecca Huss-Ashmore, Solomon H. Katz First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Perspectives on the African Food Crisis | 3 |
Drought Famine and the Seasons in SubSaharan Africa | 45 |
The Public Record | 73 |
The Historical Significance | 111 |
The Persistence of Nutritional Stress in Northeastern African | 163 |
Ecology and Politics of Food Availability | 189 |
Prevention of Famine | 203 |
Indigenous Taita Responses to Drought | 221 |
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adaptation African food agricultural areas Armelagos Basarwa bone Boran Botswana cash cattle climate communities consumption countries crisis crops cultural desertification diet dietary drought drylands ecological economic effects environment environmental erosion Ethiopia factors famine farmers Farming Systems Fleuret food production food shortages food supply foraging Gabra Glantz global grain grazing groups growth Hausa household hunger Huss-Ashmore impact important income increased iron deficiency anemia irrigation Kalahari Kenya Kweneng District land Lesotho livestock malnutrition marginalisation migration Namibia Niger nomadic nomic Nubian nutritional osteons pastoral pastoralists patterns periods plant political population Press problem programs projects rainfall rainfed croplands rangelands region relief Rendille responses to drought result rural Sahel Sahelian season Setswana Shadawanka significant social societies soils strategies stress sub-Saharan Africa subsistence Sudan Sudanese Sudano-Sahelian Swaziland Taita tion traditional UNCOD urban village wage labor women Zakah