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Managing food shortages in Central Tanzania

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Famine prevention and mitigation strategies have become an established area of interest for researchers concerned with food insecurity. Studies often focus on one famine event and the coping strategies immediately preceding or accompanying it. By contrast, this case study adopts a long-term perspective and depicts the changes of indigenous and exogenous famine-coping strategies among the Gogo, an ethnic group in semi-arid central Tanzania, over a time-span of one and half centuries. By doing so, this paper tries to give insights into the continuity and adaptability of human reactions to a persistent problem under changing socio-economic circumstances.

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Schmied, D. Managing food shortages in Central Tanzania. GeoJournal 30, 153–158 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00808133

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