Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Crummey, Donald

Publication

• Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

McCann, James, 1950-

Description

xiv, 295 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Africa and the diaspora : history, politics, culture

Uniform Title

Africa and the diaspora

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Agriculture > Environmental aspects > Ethiopia
• Agriculture > Ethiopia > History > 19th century
• Agriculture > Ethiopia > History > 20th century
• Famines > Ethiopia > History
• Landscape changes > Ethiopia
• Ethiopia
• agriculture
• famine
• 1900-1999
• Agriculture
• Agriculture > Environmental aspects
• Famines
• Landscape changes
• Hungersnot
• Landschaftsentwicklung
• Landwirtschaft
• Landwirtschaftsentwicklung
• Agriculture > Aspect environnemental > Éthiopie
• Agriculture > Éthiopie > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Agriculture > Éthiopie > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Famines > Éthiopie > Histoire
• Paysage > Modifications > Éthiopie
• Äthiopien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.

Contents

Introduction / by James C. McCann -- Famine in Ethiopia : The Great Famine of 1888-1892 Revisited -- Famine in Ethiopia, 1973-1974 and 1984-1985 -- Environment and Famine : Explanations and Interventions -- Farmers Cope -- Parameters of Landscape Change in Wallo -- Farmers and Landscape Change in Wallo -- Appendix : Life Histories.

ISBN

• 0299316300
• 9780299316303

LCCN

2017051215

OCLC

• on1010505214
• 1010505214
• SCSB-9169117

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library