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Documenting how famine in Africa is primarily of human origin and potentially reversible, this book explores the political and economic forces that influence levels of food supply. It includes analyses of countries where hunger has rarely been studied and examines African famine from both African and Eastern perspectives. The roles of gender and warfare in African hunger are also analyzed. This book should be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, economists, geographers and organizations dealing with Third World hunger.

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Author:   P.E. Downs ,  etc. ,  Donna O. Kerner (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wheaten College, Massachusetts, USA) ,  Reyna, Stephen P. Associate Professor of Anthropolofy, University of New Hampshire, USA)
Publisher:   Gordon and Breach
Imprint:   Gordon & Breach Science Publishers Ltd
Volume:   v. 9.
Weight:   0.584kg
ISBN:  

9782881244766

ISBN 10:   2881244769
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   February 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: heart of darkness - reflections on famine and starvation in Africa, Michael Watts. Part 2 Development practice and hunger: cultural construction in a Garden of Eden - the influence of ontological acquiescence in an African development project and its implications for food security, Stephen P. Reyna; rain-fed agricultural development project performance in the context of drought - the Western Savannah Project, South Darfur, Sudan, and the Drought of 1984-1985, William I. Torry. Part 3 The african scene: increased vulnerability to food shortage among Fulani nomads in Niger, Cynthia White; western assistance the Ethiopian famine - implications for humanitarian assistance, Jason W. Clay; a social history of food, famine and gender in 20th century Sudan, Jay O'Brien and Ellen Gruenbaum; labour, economic power and gender - coping with food shortage in Guinea-Bissau, Ursula Funk; food traders and food security in Ghana, Gracia Clark; gender, hunger and crisis in Tanzania, Donna O. Kerner and Kristy Cook; ideology, gender and change - social relations of production and reproduction in Nso, Cameroon, Miriam Goheen; sex and starvation - famine and three Chadian societies, Ellen Patterson Brown. Part 4 Prospects for the future: new crop varieties in a green revolution for Africa - implications for sustainability and equity, David A. Cleveland; what is to be done? a historical structural approach to warfare and famine, Stephen P. Reyna.

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