商品簡介
Flynn (anthropology, U. of Akron) explores the lives residents of Mwanza, Tanzania, and their efforts to produce, sell, and secure food in one of the poorest countries in the world in the early 1990s. As they deal with the aftereffects of forced deregulation of the stable food system by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), farmers, vendors and consumers must rely on traders in the street, tiny kitchen gardens, plantings on land outside town or, in the case of the homeless, pooling of resources so some can get something to eat. Flynn notes the changes wrought by further intervention of the World Bank and the IMF, and hopes her study will inform policy decisions made by them and by the Tanzanian government about basic social services and food supplies for struggling provincial towns like Mwanza. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Karen Coen Flynn is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The University of Akron.
