Hazards and opportunities : farming livelihoods in dryland Africa : lessons from Zimbabwe / Ian Scoones with Chinaniso Chibudu ... [et al.].
Publication details: London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, 1996.Description: xviii, 267 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 1856493539 (cased)
- 1856493547 (limp)
- 338.14096891 20 SCO
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Contents
1. Exploring risk and uncertainty
2. Farming livelihoods in southern Zimbabwe
3. Money and markets
4. Agriculture in a variable environment
5. Risky decisions
6. Making the most of spatial variation
7. Managing soil fertility
8. Exploring experimentation
9. Multiple actors, multiple perspectives
10. Coping with drought
11. Cattle and drought
12. Policies for an uncertain world
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.
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