| dc.creator | Wisner, Benjamin | |
| dc.creator | Mbithi, Philip M. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-06T09:13:31Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-06T09:13:31Z | |
| dc.date | 1973 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:56:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:56:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Wisner, Benjamin and Mbithi, Philip M. (1973) Drought in Eastern Kenya: comparative observations of nutritional status and farmer activity at 17 sites. Discussion Paper 167, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/523 | |
| dc.identifier | 318784 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1876 | |
| dc.description | This paper is the first of a series of reports dealing with man-environment-
technology relationships. In this study, agricultural drought
is viewed as a natural, though extreme, outcome of the inter-action of man
and nature. All human rural systems are seen as organized to continue to
function within diverse environmental circumstances and therefore "adjusting"
to give rise to practices, institutions and linkages which increase adaptation
and consistency.
The study attempts to portray farm level decision making as an adjustment
behaviour and relates this to environmental circumstances. It shows that
many diverse rural activities such as praying, rainmaking, irrigation, crop
spacing, frequent weeding, migration, prostitution, poaching and intensified
reciprocity norms all fit into the framework of adjustment behaviour.
One of the more important findings of the study is the realization
that a relatively low cost and high benefit approach for government, in
dealing with drought problems, is to build dry land farming research and
development programmes upon the local patterns of adjustment. This arises
from the realization that the complexity, variety and flexibility of farm and
village adjustments are closely tied to existing local techno-socio-economic
definitions of the environment and not to central planning statistical insights. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;167 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Environment | |
| dc.title | Drought in Eastern Kenya: comparative observations of nutritional status and farmer activity at 17 sites | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
