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Issues of resource access and control: a comment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2011
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The series of droughts in Africa and associated famine since the 1970s and the increasing reliance of most African countries on imported food are seen by many people to be key indicators of a crisis in African agriculture. At the same time there is a substantial difference between the story told by the macro-indicators of the crisis—foreign trade and grain production statistics from the formal sector, global famine statistics and environmental data—and by reports from individual village/community studies.
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- Access, control and use of resources in African agriculture
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- Africa , Volume 59 , Issue 1: Access, control and use of resources in African Agriculture , January 1989 , pp. 56 - 60
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- Copyright © International African Institute 1989
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1 This discussion of the impact of macro and global indicators on research approaches was developed in communications with J. E. Sumberg.
2 See papers presented at the workshop on ‘Farmers and Agricultural Research: Complementary methods’, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 1987.
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