TY - BOOK AU - Widgren,Mats AU - Sutton,John E.G. ED - British Institute in Eastern Africa. ED - Stockholms universitet. TI - Islands of intensive agriculture in Eastern Africa: past & present SN - 0852554273 AV - S472.A354 I75 2004 U1 - 631.5/8/09676 22 PY - 2004/// CY - London, Athens PB - British Institute in Eastern Africa, Ohio University Press KW - Agricultural intensification KW - Africa, Eastern KW - Agriculture KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Rural conditions N1 - 1 Towards a Historical Geography of Intensive Farming in Eastern Africa 1 MATS WIDGREN 2 The Expansion of Marakwet Hill-Furrow Irrigation in the Kerio Valley of Kenya 19 WILHELM OSTBERG 3 Agricultural Intensification & Social Stratification Konso in Ethiopia contrasted with Marakwet 49 ELIZABETH WATSON 4 The History of Iraqw Intensive Agriculture, Tanzania 68 LOWE BORJESON 5 Institutionalized Exchange as a Driving Force in Intensive Agriculture An Iraqw case study 105 VESA-MATTI LOISKE 6 Engaruka The success & abandonment of an integrated irrigation system in an arid part of the Rift Valley, c 15th to 17th centuries 114 JOHN E.G. SUTTON 7 When Islands Expand Intensification & sustainability 133 WILLIAM M. ADAMS ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-153) and index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy051/2004301385.html ER -