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Roots in the African Dust
Sustaining the Sub-Saharan Drylands
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The image of Africa in the modern world has come to be shaped by perceptions of the drylands and their problems of poverty, drought, degradation, and famine. Michael Mortimore offers an alternative and revisionist thesis, dismissing on theoretical and empirical grounds the conventional view of runaway desertification, driven by population growth and inappropriate land use. In its place he suggests a more optimistic model of sustainable land use, based on researched case studies from East and West Africa where indigenous technological adaptation has put population growth and market opportunities to advantage. He also proposes a more appropriate set of policy priorities to support dryland peoples in their efforts to sustain land and livelihoods. The result is a remarkably clear synthesis of much of the best work that has emerged over past years.
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Cambridge University Press; September 1998
240 pages; ISBN 9781139240802
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240 pages; ISBN 9781139240802
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Subject categories
- Academic > Logic > Philosophical logic > Special topics > Verification (Logic) > reclamation
- Academic > Earth Sciences > Agricultural ecology (General) > Melioration: Improvement, reclamation, fertilization, irrigation, etc., of lands > Special classes of lands and reclamation methods Including woodlands, burning of lands, deserts, saline environments, moors
- Academic > Agriculture > Special classes of lands and reclamation methods > Arid regions agriculture; Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Science > Environmental Science
- Science > Geography
- Social Science > Human Geography
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1139240803
9780521451734
9781139240802
