AfricaBib 
bibliographic database
| Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
 Conference paper |
 Leiden University catalogue |
 WorldCat |
| Title: | When the Grass is Gone: Development Intervention in African Arid Lands |
| Editor: | Baxter, P.T.W. |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Issue: | 25 |
| Pages: | 214 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Seminar proceedings from the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (ISSN 0281-0018) |
| City of publisher: | Uppsala |
| Publisher: | The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies |
| ISBN: | 9171063188 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | 1990 rural development droughts conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | This volume contains most of the papers presented at a seminar sponsored by the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (NAI), the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, which was held between 6 and 9 September, 1990. The contributors are concerned with some of the consequences that development interventions in arid lands in Africa have had for ordinary people and with some of the environmental concomitants of particular interventions. Contributions: Introduction, by P.T.W. Baxter; Bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up in natural resource management, by C. Toulmin; Livestock development or pastoral development? by M.A. Mohamed Salih; Indigenous agro-veterinary knowledge system: an alternative resource, by Mamman Aminu Ibrahim; Alternative policies and models for arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya, by G.A. Keya; 'Any time for space?': farming systems in northern Ethiopia, by O.E. Arnesen; Ecological implications for Tana River basin forestry and irrigated agriculture, by S. Johansson; Are trees effective against desertification? Experiences from Niger and Mali, by M. Angstreich; Community-based sustainable development in Central Butana, Sudan, by M.E. Abu Sin; Camel milk output: evidence from Somalia, by Mohamed Said Samantar; Ecological and pastoral production in Nigeria: issues and insights, by J.O. Gefu; 'Big men' and cattle licks in Oromoland, by P.T.W. Baxter. |