Subsistence And Change

Focusing on an agropastoral society of southcentral Somalia, this book explores the seeming incompatibility of subsistence agriculture and development goals. The central question of the book is how change can best be introduced into such a society.

Garth Massey

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Subsistence-Based Agropastoralism in the Era of Development -- Society and Economy Among the Rahanweyn -- The Process of a Subsistence-Based Agropastoralism -- Social Change in an Agropastoral Society -- Avoiding a "False Start" in Southcentral Somalia