African food systems in crisis

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Title:	African food systems in crisis
Editors:	Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca Katz, Solomon H.
Year:	1989
Volume:	7
Pages:	339
Language:	English
Series:	Food and nutrition in history and anthropology (ISSN 0275-5769)
City of publisher:	New York, NY
Publisher:	Gordon and Breach Science Publishers
ISBN:	2881243061; 2881243320
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	famine droughts food production
Abstract:	This collective volume, produced by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, is the first of a multipart project dealing with the long-term and ongoing food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. This first part deals with the crisis 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 (the Nubians of Sudan; the Taita of southeastern Kenya; Niger; the Boran and Gabra of northern Kenya; the Basarwa of Botswana) showing the ways in which Africans have responded to the threat of drought and hunger.