Description: Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia, 1958-77, Paperback by Mariam, Mesfin Wolde, ISBN 0946688036, ISBN-13 9780946688036, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Prescriptions for rural development abound, but 'what is frequently lacking is not so much ideas or techniques as the will and the commitment’ to improve conditions. The author describes how, in the complex case of Ethiopia, man can be held responsible for famine –and suggests how he can act to prevent it. This book sets out to demonstrate that the subsistence production system, with the disincentives of oppression and exploitation which keeps peasants and their families permanently at barely subsistence level without any means of averting or coping with the consequences of crop failure, is the system that creates famine in time of peace. A subsistence production system impoverishes peasants and pastoralists as well as the physical environment. It is this fact that occasionally disturbs the delicate balance between the activities and expectations of the peasants and the pastoralists, on one hand, and the process of the physical environment, on the other. When this delicate balance is disturbed famine does not occur automatically, but instead takes several months to mature into a mass author urges positive and rational action – for example, the accumulation of data, programmes of research and development, and reform, especially of taxation, can create the conditions necessary for improvement. 'The world of under development is a world of faith as opposed to critical reason... The pain of thinking can replace the pain of famine.’
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Book Title: Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia, 1958-77
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia : 1958-77
Language: English
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1986
Subject: Developing & Emerging Countries, Economic Conditions, Disasters & Disaster Relief
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.7 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics
Author: Mesfin Wolde Mariam
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
