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Food Strategies: Farm Sales |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 417 Words, 2,507 Characters |
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Roseline (average, in Western) is married to a man who has been trapped in the land-fragmentation process. Her father-in-law inherited just one acre but produced six sons. There has been no formal land division, but Roseline has the use of a quarter of an acre. Her average ranking is because of her husband's per...
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...drought of 2000). Moreover, maize farming brings none of the extra dietary and ecological bonuses of milk production. Still, Roseline's milk and banana strategy, successful in terms of food security, leaves little room--maybe 23,000 shillings per year--to pay for the secondary school fees for even one child. Nor does it take into account any other likely financial demands on her family.--P.H.
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