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Social institutions and access to resources
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Opening Paragraph For over a decade African economies have been plagued by recurrent food shortages, economic decline and growing disparities between the living standards of rich and poor. To a large extent food shortages and rural impoverishment may be attributed to external shocks—world recession, oil price shocks, deteriorating terms of trade and mounting debt service obligations—compounded in the 1970s and early 1980s by drought and war. In addition government policies have exacerbated the effects of adverse environmental and world market trends, aggravating rather than alleviating food shortages and depressing rural output and incomes.
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“Additionally, when a dominant group damages a group’s cultural institutions via cultural trauma, survivors may be brought into the dominant group’s institutions in subservient roles and status (Berry, 1989); exposing these individuals to potential acculturative stress, social disadvantage, and health-depriving discrimination and racism (Berry, 1989; Williams and Berry, 1991).”
From Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities (2022) · cites this paper as Berry, 1989
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“These latter authors stress instead the negotiated dynamic and fluid nature of the tenure relations and tenure claims and treat their socially embedded nature in radically different ways”
From Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary (2003) · cites this paper as Berry 1989
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Metadata
- Authors
- Berry, S.
- Corresponding author
- Berry, Sara
- ORCID
- Berry, Sara
- Venue
- Africa
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1989-01
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 41-55
- ISSN
- 0001-9720 (ISSN-L)
- 1750-0184
- OpenAlex
- W2025466705
- Cited by
- 423
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 15.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Africa (publishedVersion)
- VTechWorks (Virginia Tech) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Security and Socioeconomic Dynamics
- Keywords
- social institutions, access to resources, food shortages, rural poverty, external shocks, oil price shocks, terms of trade, debt service obligations, public policy, drought, war, income inequality, African economies
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