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Islands of intensive agriculture in Eastern Africa : past & present / edited by Mats Widgren & John E.G. Sutton.

Contributor(s): Series: Eastern African studiesPublication details: London : British Institute in Eastern Africa ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004.Description: xii, 160 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0852554273
  • 0852554281 (pbk.)
  • 0821415611 (OUP)
  • 082141562X (OUP : paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 631.5/8/09676 22 ISL
LOC classification:
  • S472.A354 I75 2004
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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.

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