Famine, Needs-assessment and Survival Strategies in Africa (Oxfam, 1993, 40 p.): 3 Survival strategies and their 'costs': 3.8 Household migration

Famine, Needs-assessment and Survival Strategies in Africa (Oxfam, 1993, 40 p.)

3 Survival strategies and their 'costs'

		(introduction...)
		3.1 Eating wild foods
		3.2 Going hungry
		3.3 Food preparation
		3.4 Slavery
		3.5 Sale of assets (productive/non-productive) and purchase of food
		3.6 Trading
		3.7 Labouring
		3.8 Household migration
		3.9 Consurnption of assets
		3.10 Borrowing
		3.11 Gifts
		3.12 Receiving remittances
		3.13 Theft

3.8 Household migration

Household migration, which is likely to come late in the famine process, may be a community decision and a conscious bid to attract attention and assistance, Rahmato concluded from his study of Wollo, Ethiopia, 1984-86. The costs of this strategy, in terms of neglecting rural production and exposing households to poor health environments, have been analysed in some detail by de Waal in relation to the 1984-85 famine in Darfur.