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Working the Sahel : environment and society in northern Nigeria / Michael Mortimore and William M. Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mortimore, Michael, 1937-2017.
- Series:
- Routledge research global environmental change series ; 2.
- Routledge research global environmental change series ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Sahel.
- Human ecology.
- Desertification--Sahel.
- Desertification.
- Desert ecology--Sahel.
- Desert ecology.
- Sahel--Social conditions.
- Sahel.
- Sahel--Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 231 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on four years of field research, the authors look at how farmers manage biological resources, crop and non-crop biodiversity, soil fertility, and transform the landscape through agricultural intensification.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Diversity, flexibility and adaptability
- 3. Four communities, four systems
- 4. Negotiating the rain
- 5. Working nature
- 6. Making the land work harder
- 7. When farmers are not farming
- 8. Women, children and the house
- 9. Understanding inequality
- 10. Managing the managers.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-76926-1
- 1-134-76927-X
- 1-280-15112-9
- 0-203-98326-2
- 9780203983263
- OCLC:
- 897639647
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