> From: Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.EDU>
> You might try:
>
> Scoones, I., et al., 1996,
> Hazards and Opportunities: Farming Livelihoods in Dryland
> Africa - Lessons from Zimbabwe,
> London and New Jersey: Zed Books
>
> It goes into detail about the different ways in which
> rural people in Zimbabwe coped with the disastrous droughts
> in 1991 and '92. (By "systems" I'm hoping you mean human
> communities, too.)
>
> Michael
> yount@csf.colorado.edu
Also appropriate might be the book:
"Food From Dryland Gardens"
An Ecological, Nutritional & Social Approach
to Small-Scale Household Food Production
by: David Cleveland and Daniela Soleri
Illustrated by Daniela Soleri
Center For People, Food, and the Environment, CFPE
344 South Third Avenue
Tuscon, Arizona, 85701, USA
with support from the
United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF
Copyright 1991