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Food Strategies: Permanent Employment
Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS
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Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/2002
Size: 264 Words, 1,604 Characters

Unlike land-hungry farmers, some rural people have successfully followed a permanent employment strategy. This, at least in some cases, has allowed them to purchase land and achieve food security. Gra...

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...ocated when the two younger boys marry. In twenty years' time, unless the sons emulate their father's success and increase their holdings, the grandchildren will be back to Wanjiku's starting point and essentially landless. Though this story of land fragmentation is depressingly familiar, Wanjiku's achievement in providing such a starting point in life for his four sons is impressive. --P.H.



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