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Making Decisions and Coping Well with Drought

Robert Fetsch (May, 2012)

Summary

Drought, like other natural disasters, costs individuals and families an incredible amount of worry, concern, stress, and money. Some farm and ranch families have to make agonizing decisions about selling prized cattle because they do not have the resources to feed them anymore. There are at least three ways families can make decisions in their family meetings—autocratically, democratically, and by consensus.