Some considerations of the relevance of indigenous food security strategies to development programmes

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Title:	Some considerations of the relevance of indigenous food security strategies to development programmes.
Author:	Sibisi, H.
Book title:	Advancing agricultural production in Africa
Year:	1984
Pages:	425-430
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	national plans food policy
Abstract:	The present crisis in food production and supply appears to have been brought about by a breakdown in the long-established arrangements, social and technological, by which African peoples were able to support themselves without external assistance. One major aspect of such arrangements is the provision for surviving adverse harvest seasons. Some of the information needed can be found already, if one cares to look for it, and some of the most persistent human constraints on the development of agriculture are to be found in the assumptions and practices of practitioners of development. Ref.