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| Title: | Resource Management in Sukumaland, Tanzania |
| Author: | Birley, Martin H. |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 52 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 1-30 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | Sukuma rural development environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Health and Nutrition |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159139 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1982-052-00-000002 |
| Abstract: | In their resource management practices the Sukuma people mediate between a series of conflicts of an economic, cultural and ecological nature. In order to understand their predicament, in particular the causes for soil erosion in Sukumaland, three perspectives must be examined and synthesized: historical, economic and ecological. The historical perspective reviews what is known of a series of disasters which overtook the Sukuma people at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as the administrative policies pursued in the following decades. The economic perspective examines the spatial and temporal dimensions of risk and the behaviour of the people as farmers and cattle herders. The ecological summarises the ecology of two important disease vectors - tsetse flies and cattle ticks - and demonstrates how ecological studies contribute to an understanding of the other two components. As part of this synthesis a number of models are assembled, each of which may illuminate aspects of the problem, suggesting future approaches towards the planning of research and development policy in Sukumaland and elsewhere. Fig., ref., tab., sum. in French. |
