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is a diversified food base, including a strong focus on edible wild bush plants.
If this view is supportable, it logically follows that drought is not the cause
of famine; famine is the result from inability to perceive or utilize potential
wild foods available in surrounding bushlands. Is the Sahel disaster a problem
born of cultural inability to recognize, procure, and utilize available wild
food resources -- resources that irmerly were sustaining and characteristic
of so many sub-Saharan agro-pastoral societies? Perhaps the lessons taught by
Tlokwa nutritional success can be useful in interpreting the origins and develop­
ment of fam,ne elsewhere within the tropics.
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