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Adaptable Livelihoods

Coping with Food Insecurity in the Malian Sahel

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Susanna Davies

    1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 1-14

  3. Security and Vulnerability in Livelihood Systems

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 15-44

  4. Coping and Adapting

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 45-59

  5. Monitoring How People Feed Themselves

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 60-78

  6. Drought, Food Insecurity and Early Warning in Mali

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 79-108

  7. Livelihood Safety Nets: The Inner Niger Delta in the Sahel

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 109-136

  8. Livelihood Systems

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 137-175

  9. Production Entitlements

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 176-197

  10. Exchange Entitlements

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 198-237

  11. Coping and Adaptive Entitlements

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 238-279

  12. Tracking and Tackling Food Vulnerability

    • Susanna Davies
    Pages 280-310

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 311-335
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'The book's radical message "save livelihoods not just lives" should be on the desk of every policy-maker concerned with relief and development and demands a rethink of policy and practice across the board.' - Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies 'A book on development I really enjoyed. An entriguing story emerges: the real expert on saving lives and livelihoods are the people facing famine and insecurity themselves. This book details the evolution of the local food monitoring system, showing that by concentrating on what people can do in response to change, rather than what they cannot do, we can devise more permanent and effective responses to food insecurity than emergency food aid distribution.' - Mike Aaronson, Save the Children Poor people living in high-risk environments live continuously with uncertainty which often threatens their livelihoods. They have therefore developed effective means of predicting and responding to large fluctuations in rainfall, harvest levels and natural resource production. These methods of prediction and response often out-perform conventional early warning systems promoted by donors and governments, and yet are rarely considered in the conception and implementation of food security programmes.

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  • Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Susanna Davies

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