Adapting to Drought : Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521323126
ISBN-13
9780521323123
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 30th, 1989
Print length
324 Pages
Weight
542 grams
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropologyApplied ecology
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This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria.
This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful''be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the observable resilience of semi-arid ecosystems and the adaptive strategies of the human communities that inhabit them and suggests policy directions for strengthening that resilience.
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