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Title: | Drought and famine management in Kitui District, Kenya |
Author: | Akong'a, J. |
Book title: | Anthropology of development and change in East Africa / ed. by David W. Brokensha and Peter D. Little. - Boulder, [Col.] [etc.]: Westview Press |
Year: | 1988 |
Pages: | 99-120 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | famine droughts |
Abstract: | The information presented in this article is based on research carried out in Kitui District, a semiarid region of Kenya in Eastern Province, in 1980 and 1985. The aims of the study were: 1) to examine how the people in the district have in the past coped with drought and famine; 2) to identify the impact of drought and famine on interpersonal relations and on relations between the people and such external agencies as the government; to count the costs and to identify some of the attempts that have been made to minimize the costs of drought and famine; 3) to examine some of the practical alternative solutions to the problems, identified within the framework of existing national food policy. Conclusion is that the eradication of the problem of famine in Kitui District can only be achieved within a national rather than regional framework. Bibliogr., note. |