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Author Crummey, Donald, author.

Title Farming and famine : landscape vulnerability in northeast Ethiopia, 1889-1991 / Donald E, Crummey ; edited by James C. McCann.

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Africa and the diaspora : history, politics, culture
Africa and the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Historians and scholars of Ethiopia have long struggled to understand the "Ethiopian Paradox": that is, how could Africa's most productive food production system, which sustained an extraordinary imperial culture over two millennia, also be home to periodic, gut-wrenching famine and rural poverty? Ethiopia in the late twentieth century has surpassed earlier icons of famine: China, India, Armenia, and Biafra. And yet, ironically, Ethiopia's highland culture also generated, and eventually exported, the iconic cuisine served in Ethiopian restaurants throughout the developed world, and in large cities in Africa itself. Donald Crummey argues that in the face of increasing environmental stress, Ethiopian farmers have innovated and adapted. In the process they have developed effective strategies for managing their environment--strategies too often ignored by conservation projects.
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Editor's Preface; Note on Transliteration; Introduction, by James C. McCann; 1. Famine in Ethiopia: The Great Famine of 1888-1892 Revisited; 2. Famine in Ethiopia, 1973-1974 and 1984-1985; 3. Environment and Famine: Explanations and Interventions; 4. Farmers Cope; 5. Parameters of Landscape Change in Wallo; 6. Farmers and Landscape Change in Wallo; Appendix: Life Histories; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Ethiopia.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Ethiopia.
Agriculture -- Ethiopia -- History -- 19th century.
Agriculture.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Agriculture -- Ethiopia -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Famines -- Ethiopia -- History.
Famines.
Landscape changes -- Ethiopia.
Landscape changes.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author McCann, James, 1950- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Crummey, Donald. Farming and famine 9780299316303 (DLC) 2017051215 (OCoLC)1010505214
ISBN 9780299316334 (electronic book)
0299316335 (electronic book)
9780299316303
0299316300