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Community's Survival Mechanisms in Times of Extreme Deprivation
Little is known about survival mechanisms which poor households devise during periods of extreme deprivation. This study is based on 118 interviews with Tengani Villagers in Malawi. The main survival strategies they adopted during the 1990–92 period when a severe drought and nearly 60,000 Mozambican refugees caused acute shortage of basic resources, were resource - sharing, modification of consumption patterns, temporary out - migration, income generation and competition for grazing pastures. The paper suggests policy action to strengthen these strategies as a means of enhancing poor communities' chances of survival in times of scarcity and reducing both budgets for relief programmes and their wastage.
Community's Survival Mechanisms in Times of Extreme Deprivation
Little is known about survival mechanisms which poor households devise during periods of extreme deprivation. This study is based on 118 interviews with Tengani Villagers in Malawi. The main survival strategies they adopted during the 1990–92 period when a severe drought and nearly 60,000 Mozambican refugees caused acute shortage of basic resources, were resource - sharing, modification of consumption patterns, temporary out - migration, income generation and competition for grazing pastures. The paper suggests policy action to strengthen these strategies as a means of enhancing poor communities' chances of survival in times of scarcity and reducing both budgets for relief programmes and their wastage.
Community's Survival Mechanisms in Times of Extreme Deprivation
Chilimampunga, Charles D. (author)
Community development journal ; 32 ; 312-
1997-10-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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