African Food Systems In Crisis Contending With Change

Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000113761

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African Food Systems in Crisis by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H Katz Pdf

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.

Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 2881243339

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African Food Systems in Crisis: Contending with change by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz Pdf

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134290109

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African Food Systems in Crisis by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz Pdf

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000124316

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African Food Systems in Crisis by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H Katz Pdf

Originally published in 1991. Commissioned by the Task Force on African Famine of the American Anthropological Association, this the second part of a project examining the causes of food system failure in Africa and the effects of attempts to remedy the situation. It evaluates the often-retrogressive results of foreign aid to African nations and offers an anthropological perspective on how to reverse this trend. The contributors emphasize integrating all development programs with the regional customs and traditions already in place that have thus far allowed its people to cope with food and water shortages. In the past, various strategies have failed due to misunderstandings and incorrect assumptions concerning gender roles, food consumption habits, social relations, kinship networks, land use and government function. New understanding of the culture must be complemented with multifaceted programs incorporating education, a concern for grass-roots opinion and control, attention to production and consumption patterns, and various forms of broad-spectrum integrated development. The uniqueness research is recommended for all who are concerned about worldwide malnutrition and those who understand the need to recognize local traditions as resources that must be included in any successful development program.

Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2881243061

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African Food Systems in Crisis: Microperspectives by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz Pdf

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2881243320

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African Food Systems in Crisis by Rebecca Huss-Ashmore,Solomon H. Katz Pdf

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : K. Flynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137079862

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Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City by K. Flynn Pdf

A rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, offering valuable lessons about the powerful roles of gender, migration, exchange, sex, and charity in food acquisition. Based on anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, this work draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low, middle and high-income consumers, urban farmers as well as those, including children, who live on the streets. This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals interested in anthropology, African studies, urban studies, gender studies and development economics.

Author : Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih,Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Salih
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171063595

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Inducing Food Insecurity by Margaret A. Mohamed-Salih,Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Salih Pdf

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Author : Mark Goodale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405183352

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Human Rights by Mark Goodale Pdf

This innovative reader brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years. Draws on a range of intellectual and methodological approaches to reveal both the ambiguities and potential of the postwar human rights project Brings together essays by both contemporary luminaries and seminal figures to provide a rich introduction to the subject Supplemented with selected international human rights documents and links to websites on human rights

Author : Piers Blaikie,Terry Cannon,Ian Davis,Ben Wisner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134528615

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At Risk by Piers Blaikie,Terry Cannon,Ian Davis,Ben Wisner Pdf

The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed. The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others. Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.

Author : Joni Seager
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assesment and Early Warning by Joni Seager Pdf

Author : Piers M. Blaikie
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0415084776

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At Risk by Piers M. Blaikie Pdf

Examines the significance of the human factor which is as much of a cause of disasters as the natural environment. Practical and policy conclusions are drawn with a view to disaster reduction and the promotion of safer environments.

Author : Peter Uvin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 288449118X

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The Hunger Report 1993 by Peter Uvin Pdf

"The Hunger Report: 1993" is the fifth in a series by the Brown University World Hunger Program. Drawing on numerous reports of hunger researchers, monitors, and policy makers, it classifies and clarifies their diverse data within a single typology of hunger caused by food shortage, food poverty, and food deprivation. Policy makers, academicians, and practitioners concerned with hunger and development will find this book an invaluable resource. In the year 1993, hunger was definitely on the international development agenda. The world has witnessed with mounting concern the needless persistence of hunger and, along with it, a proliferation of often-conflicting supporting data, a multiplication of often-conflicting institutional efforts, an escalation in political rhetoric, and an overall increase in media and public attention.

Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780691178431

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The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich Pdf

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Author : Jason Stearns
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610391597

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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns Pdf

A "tremendous," "intrepid" history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.