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Food systems in central and southern Africa / edited by Johan Pottier.

Title
Food systems in central and southern Africa / edited by Johan Pottier.
Publication
London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, c1985.

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Additional Authors
  • Pottier, Johan
  • University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies
Description
vii, 287 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Conference papers on food production and food security in Central Africa and Southern Africa - looks at the sexual division of labour, changing cultivation systems, etc.; includes a case study of fishery development, and of access to food by textile workers in a rural area; examines small farm production in a migrant worker exporting area, food policies and factors which influence production, as well as food sharing during food shortages. Bibliographys, diagrams, maps, statistical tables. Conference held in London 1983 Jul.
Subject
  • Food supply > Africa, Central
  • Food supply > Africa, Southern
  • Agricultural productivity > Africa, Central
  • Agricultural productivity > Africa, Southern
  • Agriculture and state > Africa, Central
  • Agriculture and state > Africa, Southern
Genre/Form
  • conference paper.
  • bibliography.
  • map.
  • document de conférence.
  • bibliographie.
  • carte géographique.
  • documento de conferencia.
  • bibliografía.
  • mapa.
Note
  • Summaries in French.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The food system of the Ntomba of Lake Tumba, Zaire / Hélène Pagezy -- Production and gender in north-western Zambia / Kate Crehan -- Reciprocity and the beer pot / Johan Pottier -- Food production and the changing structure of Zambia agriculture / Adrian Wood -- A study of intensification / Peter Hayward -- Working and eating / Angela Cheater -- Who wants to be a peasant? / Diana Callear -- Food policy and production in Mozambique since independence / Philip Raikes -- Factors influencing food production in Lesotho and Swaziland / Jan Sterkenburg -- Food sharing during food crisis / Christine Obbo.
ISBN
0728601265
LCCN
^^^90103526^
OCLC
  • 20991936
  • SCSB-12124962
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library