Sociospatial Factors of Environmental Stress and Food Deficit in the Horn of Africa

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Title:	Sociospatial Factors of Environmental Stress and Food Deficit in the Horn of Africa
Authors:	Campbell, David J. Mehretu, Assefa
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Northeast African Studies
Volume:	8
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-10
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Northeast Africa
Subjects:	food shortage Politics and Government Drought and Desertification Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/43660190
Abstract:	In order to comprehend the complex root causes of the food crisis in the Horn and to consider possible solutions, a systems approach is necessary. From such a perspective it becomes evident that those areas where food production, distribution and storage were most severely disrupted, experienced concurrent disruption of the basic social, political, economic, and environmental components of the system, resulting in a degree of structural damage which local resources were often incapable of repairing. The structural damage in regions of subsistence crisis was further aggravated by remoteness from the core of power and development. Bibliogr.