Quantitative Analysis of Drought Management Strategies across Ethnographically-Researched African Societies: A Pilot Study

Land • Vol/Iss. 10(1062) • Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute • Basel, Switzerland • Published In • Pages: 1-15 •
By Biagetti, Stefano, Zurro, Débora, Alcaina-Mateos, Jonas, Bortolini, Eugenio, Madella, Marco

Abstract

In this pilot study, the authors investigate the relationships between both subsistence types and environmental conditions, and various coping mechanisms for drought in 35 societies in Africa. Using Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA), they find subsistence strategies to have a more significant correlation with the distribution of coping strategies for drought than environmental conditions.
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