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agropastoral adaptation strategies
Agropastoral Practices
Agropastoral Societies
Agropastoral System
Author_Garth Massey
Backward Sloping Supply Curve
Bay Region
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family structure
Finger Millet
gender roles agriculture
Geomorphic Zones
Groom's Genitors
herding systems
Higher Crop Productivity
Large Family
market integration impacts
mixed agropastoral system
Patrilateral Parallel Cousins
peasant-centered development
Purchased Factor Inputs
Rahanweyn ethnography
rural livelihoods Somalia
Shebelle River
Social Reproduction
Soil Management
Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
subsistence agriculture
Subsistence Herding
Subsistence Producers
subsistence societies
Tea Pots
traditional economic systems
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367289133
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on an agropastoral society of southcentral Somalia, this book explores the seeming incompatibility of subsistence agriculture and development goals. Based upon survey and ethnographic research carried out among the Rahanweyn, the study pays particular attention to economic activities, linking them with environmental factors as well as with history, culture, the division of labor and women's roles, family structure, demography, and herding and agriculture. How change can best be introduced into such a society is the central question of the book. The meaning of subsistence and its relationship to self-sufficiency and a survival threshold are examined within the context of an externally imposed market system. The implications of rapidly induced market involvement in a traditional society are looked at in light of data on a range of subsistence societies. The author argues for a redirection of development practices, making a case for the viability of a mixed agropastoral system that diverges little from the traditional subsistence patterns, and for peasant-centered development compatible with subsistence production, balancing national and international interests.
Garth Massey
