Ecological stress and adaptive response: a study of drought induced nomad settlement in Northern Kenya
Merryman, J.
Pan Africanist 8: 6-16
1979
Document Number: 410038
The social and economic changes experienced by the Somalian nomads of Garissa, N. Kenya are described together with a government project for their settlement after the 1972 drought. The willingness of the nomads to incorporate agriculture into their traditional cattle economy is examined.
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