Famine in Africa 1982
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-027998-5.50017-9
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Social Responses during Severe Food Shortages and Famine

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“…Some farmers claim that markets are growing in importance in seed supply, while amounts supplied for free from other farmers are decreasing. Such changes could be because chronic environmental stress has reduced farmers' capacity, but not their desire, to offer generous support (Hammond and Maxwell 2002;Dirks 1980). Indeed, many farmers, as well as government and NGO officials, claim that the culture of mutual assistance remains strong.…”
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“…Some farmers claim that markets are growing in importance in seed supply, while amounts supplied for free from other farmers are decreasing. Such changes could be because chronic environmental stress has reduced farmers' capacity, but not their desire, to offer generous support (Hammond and Maxwell 2002;Dirks 1980). Indeed, many farmers, as well as government and NGO officials, claim that the culture of mutual assistance remains strong.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Mutual aid may increase in the early phases of a crisis, but if it persists over time, support tends to become more constrained and short-term in nature as assets are steadily depleted (Dirks 1980). This may be occurring in West Harerghe, as we now know that the 1998-1999 season was part of the build-up to the 'slow onset' food and seed crises of 1999-2000 (Hammond and Maxwell 2002) and [2002][2003].…”
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“…Studies find a higher risk of common mental health disorders (Hadley & Patil, 2006;Patel & Kleinman, 2003), seasonal weight loss, dietary change (Rose, 1999;van Liere, Ategbo, Den Hartog, & Hautvast, 1995) and overall poorer health among members of food insecure or food insufficient households (Casey, Szeto, Robbins, Stuff, Connell, Gossett et al, 2005;Cook, Frank, Berkowitz, Black, Casey, Cutts et al, 2004;Siefert, Heflin, Corcoran, & Williams, 2004). Anthropological studies of food insecurity also document a range of social responses to food insecurity including migration, borrowing from other households, and switching to less desirable foods (Dirks, 1980;Panter-Brick & Eggerman, 1997;Shipton, 1990). Although relatively few studies focus on youth, we can expect many of the underlying relationships between food insecurity and health status that have been observed for adults and children to be present for adolescents.…”
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“…Several important edited volumes and review articles provided insights into the adaptability of households in the face of food insufficiency and its implications for nutritional wellbeing (Dirks, 1980;de Garine and Harrison, 1988;Huss-Ashmore, 1988;Huss-Ashmore and Katz, 1989;Cashdan, 1990;Messer and Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, 1990;Shipton, 1990;Pottier, 1999). In the late 1990s and early 2000s, paralleling a period of expanding interest in the measurement of food insecurity, biological anthropologists took up the construct of food insecurity and began to explore the causes and consequences of food insecurity among diverse populations in the United States and elsewhere (e.g., Himmelgreen et al, 2000).…”
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