Food Shortages and Seasonality in WoDaaBe Communities in Niger

  • Cynthia White
Volume 17 Number 3
Published: July 1, 1986
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.1986.mp17003004.x
Data on WoDaaBe nomadic pastoralists in central Niger demonstrate that seasonality, through a coincidence of stress factors in the dry and transition seasons, clearly does reinforce poverty in this group. Although important, dry season hardship is merely a symptom of more crucial political and economic factors affecting the WoDaaBe economy.
From Issue: Vol. 17 No. 3 (1986) | Seasonality and Poverty