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Title: | Strategies for Coping with Severe Food Deficits in Northeastern Africa |
Author: | Campbell, David J. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Northeast African Studies |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 43-54 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | food policy food shortage Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43660232 |
Abstract: | The ongoing process of integration of rural society into national society in northeast Africa strains and alters patterns of interaction among social, economic, and political institutions and the local environment. The rural system is in a state of accelerated adaptation to exogenous forces. One outcome has been a reduction in the effectiveness and diversity of locally-based coping strategies and an increased dependence upon exogenous sources of support. With the onset of a prolonged period of below average rainfall in the late 1960s, rural production systems have been under continuous and compounding stress. However, it would be wrong to attribute the famine conditions which prevail in northeast Africa to climate alone. Rather they result from the synergistic effect of a number of long and short-term processes on the ability of village-level food production and distribution systems to feed the people. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |