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Title:Strategies for Coping with Severe Food Deficits in Northeastern Africa
Author:Campbell, David J.ISNI
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.
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