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Title:Adaptive strategies in African arid lands
Editors:Bovin, MetteISNI
Manger, LeifISNI
Chapter(s):Present
Year:1990
Pages:181
Language:English
City of publisher:Uppsala
Publisher:Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (SIAS)
ISBN:9171063110
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:pastoralists
droughts
environment
agriculture
drylands
conference papers (form)
1989
Abstract:The general aim of this collection of essays, which grew out of a workshop held in Uppsala, April 13-16, 1989, is 1) to delineate the salient features of ecological and socioeconomic adaptations in drylands in Africa; 2) to discuss the contemporary crisis of traditional forms of adaptations and to isolate agents of change; and 3) to analyse the emerging adaptive strategies and coping mechanisms that arise out of the contemporary African crisis. The following articles are included: Nomads of the drought: Fulbe and Wodaabe nomads between power and marginalization in the Sahel of Burkina Faso and Niger Republic (M. Bovin); Agro-pastoralists' response to agricultural policies: the predicament of the Baggara, western Sudan (M.A. Mohamed Salih); Political adaptation: the case of the Wabarabaig in Hanang district, Tanzania (Vesa Matti Loiske); Production versus environment? Planning resource management and ecological adaptation in Kenyan drylands (A.H. af Ornäs); Development projects and peasant associations in Wollo, Ethiopia (Tuomo Melasuo); The process of survival in south-eastern Uganda (M.A. Whyte); A case study of peasants' adaptation to hybrid maize in semi-arid Tanzania (E. Friis-Hansen); Agro-pastoral production systems and the problem of resource management (L. Manger).
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