What is the nature of the problem / question being asked? Is it broad or narrow in scope? Is it substantive?
The nature of this article is to explore private and public responses to food insecurity in Burkina Faso, West Africa (West 2015:54). The scope of the question West asks is narrow. He discusses one geographical area over three time periods focusing on food insecurity from two different discourses (West 2015:54). In doing this his scope is focused on this specific subject with a specific conclusion.
The question West investigates is substantive. He discusses an area that is prone to short term droughts (West 2015:55). In doing so West can study effects of food insecurity in an area where it is normalized. Short-term droughts allow for …show more content…
West explains how he compares and contrasts food insecurity positioned over three different periods of time, “2002, 2004 and 2012” (West 2015:54), for Mossi communities in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is close to the Sahara Desert and wetter Sudanian forest zones (West 2015:54). This particular, environmental, zone results in more frequent droughts, but also good, wetter, seasons (West 2015:54). West asks partakers in his study to compare the droughts he is studying with recent multi-year droughts from the late sixties to mid-eighties (West 2015:54). West later concludes, that both private and public processes for dealing with ‘seasonal food insecurity’ has been improving in terms of local contexts (West 2015:54). West predicts that public and private responses to food insecurity have improved in interacting with each other to solve food insecurity problems (West 2015:54,61-63). This interaction is stronger than most researches previously concluded on the relationship between public and private responses to food insecurity (West …show more content…
These cereal banks could be used to store extra bags of grain for leaner times (West 2015:59-60). In some cases, households would build bigger granaries as certain grains in the right conditions could be stored longer for example, millet (West 2015:60). West highlights that some public systems are not very helpful as they are more ethnocentric in their aid (West 2015:60). For example, as recently 2002 the main grain sent by food aid from the United States to Mossi communities in Burkina Faso was maize (West 2015:59-60). While Maize seems like a smart choice, it is hard to find use for it once it is dried and most places did not possess the technology needed to ground the maize (West 2015:59-61). Another grain often sent was red sorghum, which is most commonly used to feed animals (West 2015:61). Meaning there was little to no use for red sorghum (West 2015:61). West noted though there were flaws in how foreign aid groups helped, they still can and do aid the private discourse (West 2015:61). An example he uses, is a farmer’s personal investment in diguettes, a system that helps overland water flow, is made possible by the ‘external assistance’ of PATECORE through training on building and use (West 2015:62). Public and Private response become mixed as private investments progress agricultural techniques and public response improves by utilizing these techniques
The nature of this article is to explore private and public responses to food insecurity in Burkina Faso, West Africa (West 2015:54). The scope of the question West asks is narrow. He discusses one geographical area over three time periods focusing on food insecurity from two different discourses (West 2015:54). In doing this his scope is focused on this specific subject with a specific conclusion.
The question West investigates is substantive. He discusses an area that is prone to short term droughts (West 2015:55). In doing so West can study effects of food insecurity in an area where it is normalized. Short-term droughts allow for …show more content…
West explains how he compares and contrasts food insecurity positioned over three different periods of time, “2002, 2004 and 2012” (West 2015:54), for Mossi communities in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is close to the Sahara Desert and wetter Sudanian forest zones (West 2015:54). This particular, environmental, zone results in more frequent droughts, but also good, wetter, seasons (West 2015:54). West asks partakers in his study to compare the droughts he is studying with recent multi-year droughts from the late sixties to mid-eighties (West 2015:54). West later concludes, that both private and public processes for dealing with ‘seasonal food insecurity’ has been improving in terms of local contexts (West 2015:54). West predicts that public and private responses to food insecurity have improved in interacting with each other to solve food insecurity problems (West 2015:54,61-63). This interaction is stronger than most researches previously concluded on the relationship between public and private responses to food insecurity (West …show more content…
These cereal banks could be used to store extra bags of grain for leaner times (West 2015:59-60). In some cases, households would build bigger granaries as certain grains in the right conditions could be stored longer for example, millet (West 2015:60). West highlights that some public systems are not very helpful as they are more ethnocentric in their aid (West 2015:60). For example, as recently 2002 the main grain sent by food aid from the United States to Mossi communities in Burkina Faso was maize (West 2015:59-60). While Maize seems like a smart choice, it is hard to find use for it once it is dried and most places did not possess the technology needed to ground the maize (West 2015:59-61). Another grain often sent was red sorghum, which is most commonly used to feed animals (West 2015:61). Meaning there was little to no use for red sorghum (West 2015:61). West noted though there were flaws in how foreign aid groups helped, they still can and do aid the private discourse (West 2015:61). An example he uses, is a farmer’s personal investment in diguettes, a system that helps overland water flow, is made possible by the ‘external assistance’ of PATECORE through training on building and use (West 2015:62). Public and Private response become mixed as private investments progress agricultural techniques and public response improves by utilizing these techniques