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Title: | Agricultural Policy and Environmental Destruction in Ethiopia and Nigeria |
Author: | Koehn, Peter |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | Rural Africana |
Volume: | 25-26 |
Period: | Spring/Fall |
Pages: | 25-53 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Nigeria |
Subjects: | agricultural policy environment Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Politics and Government |
Abstract: | This article assesses the environmental consequences of the agricultural policies being pursued in Nigeria and Ethiopia, the two most populous countries in sub-Saharan Africa, in the face of mounting food production pressures on arable and marginal lands. In both countries, the agricultural production methods posing the most serious threats to the long-term carrying capacity of the land have been externally inspired, designed, and financed. African agricultural inventions and cultivation techniques tend to be adapted to local ecological conditions and sensitive to the critical need to preserve fragile natural resources. The Ethiopian and Nigerian experiences indicate that sustainable, conservation-based strategies aimed at increasing food production for domestic consumption and bringing about the more equitable distribution of resources merit greater attention in Africa. Bibliogr., notes. |