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Key Phrases: local casual labor, accelerated water erosion, desertification hazard, New York, Third World, United Nations (more...)

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Paperback: 354 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2881243320
ISBN-13: 978-2881243325
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
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The dominant view of climate held within the development community, as late as the early 1970s, was that of a fixed boundary condition; that is, a constant given about which society could do little (Glantz 1987). Read the first page

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local casual labor, accelerated water erosion, desertification hazard, forming osteons, migratory wage labor, rainfed croplands, gada system, rainfed cropping, stock associates, seasonal hunger, pastoral ecosystem, hunger season, famine prevention, plains households, marginalised populations, food crises, pastoral populations, food stress, livestock numbers, indigenous responses, drought periods

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New York, Third World, United Nations, West Africa, South Africa, Academic Press, Botswana Society, Kalahari Desert, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Cambridge University Press, Sudanese Nubian, Clark University Press, Kung San, Kweneng District, United States, Van Gerven, Department of Anthropology, East African, Government of Botswana, Government Printer, Latin America, Mediterranean Africa, North America, District Councils, Harvard University Press

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This book cites 81 books:

Food in Sub Saharan Africa (Food in Africa Series) by Art Hansen on 6 pages
From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa by J. Desmond Clark in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 183
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen in Front Matter, page 71, and page 162
Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel by Richard W. Franke in Front Matter, and page 201
Letters from the Antipodes by Michel Butor in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)

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