Author: G. Jan van ApeldoornPublisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780043011355
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
1972-1974 crisis in northern Nigeria.
Perspectives on Drought and Famine in Nigeria
Author: G. Jan van ApeldoornPublisher: Unwin Hyman
ISBN: 9780043011355
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
1972-1974 crisis in northern Nigeria.
Perspectives on Drought and Famine in Nigeria
Author: F. J. van APELDOORNPerspectives on Drought and Famine in Nigeria
Author: G. Jan Van ApeldoornPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040017770
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and uncovered the basic cause of the increasing vulnerability of the Nigerian rural poor during the 1970s to the effects of drought, in order to show the lessons of the crisis and how they could be translated into medium-term action. The author argued that an analysis of the causes and impact of the drought and famine disaster of the seventies could offer useful clues to the policy orientations necessary to avert a protracted food crisis in the region
Drought in Nigeria
Author: G. Jan van ApeldoornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Droughts
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Adapting to Drought
Author: Michael MortimorePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521323123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful'be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the observable resilience of semi-arid ecosystems and the adaptive strategies of the human communities that inhabit them and suggests policy directions for strengthening that resilience.
African Food Systems in Crisis
Author: Rebecca Huss-AshmorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000124304
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Originally published in 1990. Produced by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, this is the first of a multi-part project dealing with the long-term and ongoing food crisis in Africa primarily at the level of local production-the microperspective. It offers a series of anthropological and ecological views on the cause of the current problem and on coping strategies used by both indigenous people and developmental planners. The three sections of this volume review current explanations for food problems in Africa, focusing mainly on production and consumption at the household level; they offer a number of perspectives on the environmental, historical, political, and economic contexts for food stress, and include a series of case studies showing the ways in which Africans have responded to the threat of drought and hunger. The extent of research and the degree of scholarship involved in the production of this volume recommend it to all persons concerned with this ultimately global dilemma, particularly those involved in planning and relief efforts.
Drought in Nigeria: Lessons of the 1972-1974 disaster
Author: G. Jan van ApeldoornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Droughts
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Seeds of Famine
Author: Richard W. FrankePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
SCOTT (copy 2): From the John Holmes Library Collection.
African Food Systems in Crisis: Microperspectives
Author: Rebecca Huss-AshmorePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9782881243066
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mass Starvation
Author: Alex de WaalPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509524703
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.