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Preface Foreword Bradford Morse Part I. Physical and Social Setting: 1. Global climate change and variability: effects on drought and desertification in Africa Eugene M. Rasmusson 2. some aspects of meteorological drought in Ethiopia Workineh Degefu 3. Drought and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa Michael H. Glantz 4. African pastoralism and poverty: some implications for drought and famine Michael M. Horowitz and Peter D. Little 5. Part II. Internal-External Perspectives: 5. The decline of African agriculture: an internalist perspective Michael F. Lofchie 6. Internal factors that generate famine Robert J. Cummings 7. Towards a political economy of the African crisis: diplomacy, debates and dialectics Timothy M. Shaw 8. Linking and sinking: economic externalities and the persistence of destitution and famine in Africa Randall Baker Part III. Case Studies: 9. Drought, environment and food security: some reflections on peasants, pastoralists and commoditization in dryland West Africa Michael Watts 10. Drought, food and the social organization of small farmers in Zimbabwe Michael Bratton 11. The social impact of drought in Ethiopia: oxen, households, and some implications for rehabilitation James McCann 12. role of government in combatting food shortages: lessons from Kenya 1984-85 John M. Cohen and David B. Lewis 13. The social impacts of planned settlement in Burkina Faso Della E. McMillan 14. Evolution of food rationing systems with reference to African group farms in the context of drought William I. Torry 15. The role of non-government organizations in famine prevention Michael F. Scott Part IV. Lessons for the Future: 16. food self-sufficiency in Malawi: are successes transferable? J. Gus Liebenow 17. Famine relief policy in India: six lessons for Africa Michelle B. McAlpin 18. Famine and famine relief: viewing Africa in the 1980s from China in the 1920s Lillian M. Li 19. Denying famine a future: concluding remarks Rhys Payne, Lynette Rummel and Michael J. Glantz Index.
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