The Poor Are Not Us: Pastoralism and Poverty in East Africa. (Book Reviews).

Anderson, David M., and Vigdis Broch-Due, eds. 1999. THE POOR ARE NOT US: PASTORALISM AND POVERTY IN EAST AFRICA. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 269 pp.

In recent decades, pastoralists in Eastern Africa have been under extraordinary stress, due to a powerful cocktail of factors: loss of pasture to expanding farms and national parks; commoditization of livestock and land; livestock enclosures; drought; warfare; ill-advised development schemes; environmental degradation and overgrazing; population growth; a growing gap between rich and poor pastoralists; and the breakdown ...

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