Farming and famine : landscape vulnerability in northeast Ethiopia, 1889-1991 /

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 r...

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Main Author: Crummey, Donald (Author)
Other Authors: McCann, James, 1950- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018
Series:Africa and the diaspora.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.