Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania Volume 246

by Philip W. Porter

Tanga Region, Tanzania, is an area of persistent rural poverty with a long history of drought, floods, food shortages, famine, and social and economic disruption. Though farmers have been cultivating the land there for hundreds of years, they have consistently been unable to supply adequate food for the region's inhabitants. In Challenging Nature, Philip Porter examines eighteen farming communities to understand what the farmers there know...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226675807
• ISBN13: 9780226675800
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"