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__**Igbo Farming:**__

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 * They farm:**
 * 1) Cassava
 * 2) Yams
 * 3) Tavo
 * Cash crops are palm products, like oil and kernels
 * Farming land:**
 * Farming land is passed by seniority down to kinship; women were required to be given land because they used it for farming food for her family.
 * Piece of land called Ebo close to the village; used by men by women allowed to have the poorer parts for cassava plants
 * Crops were the Igbo's way of survival; if crops were bad then there was famine and starvation
 * Igbo believed in Ani, the earth goddess. They would pray to her for full harvest

__**Locusts**__

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 * Considered a Natural Disaster
 * Have caused famine throughout history and are still a major problem today
 * Usually solitary. They rarely swarm
 * When greens become abundant, locusts' breeding growsand they begin to form swarms
 * Found in Asia, Middle East, and are most devastatingly in Africa
 * Locusts effect 1 tenth of humans because, they cover more than 1/5 of the earth's land surface
 * A swarm can consist of 40-60 million locusts in less than 1/2 of a square mile
 * They can eat up to 423 pounds of plant each day
 * Some scientist believe a chemical call serotonin may lead to larger gangs of locust

__Works Cited__ Images: Cassava Image//: http://www.virginmedia.com/images/cassava430x300.jpg// Locust Image 1//: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1247168// Locust Image 2: //http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/p/pg/pgadler/1106465_locust.jpg//

Videos: Plague of Locusts -Wild Africa - BBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNy2R3hg2Q

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"Igbo in 1700's." //Google//. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. .

"Igbo People, a Study in Anthropology - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com." //Associated Content - associatedcontent.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. 

"Igbo women working on farming land, Mgbom village, Afikpo Village-Group, Nigeria. [slide].." //SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System//. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. .

"Serotonin locust gangs at SizzlingSkillet.com." //SizzlingSkillet.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2010. .