Understanding the Vulnerability of African Farmers Living with Uncertainty: A Study of a Village in Central Province, Zambia

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  • 不確実な社会に生きるアフリカ農民の脆弱性
  • ── ザンビア中央州の1農村における調査から ──

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The importance of the concept of vulnerability is widely acknowledged, however it is not easy to fully understand and evaluate it because of its multi-faceted nature.　The vulnerability can only be assessed using a multi-factor approach.　This paper tries to show one of example how to explore the vulnerability of small scale farmers in Africa.　I carefully examined changes in farmers’ vulnerability in a village of Zambia based on the long-term records since 1992.　I focused on the change of farmers’ accessibility to natural resources.　The result shows that the impact of socioeconomic change on vulnerability is open to more than one interpretation, and more, changes may have counteracting effects on vulnerability through the resulting socioeconomic changes.　Thus the multi-factor approach shows us how intricate the concept of vulnerability and resilience are.

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