INDIGENOUS LAND MANAGEMENT IN WEST AFRICA by Baker, Kathleen M ISBN 0198233930
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The success of rural development schemes in Africa, particularly those involving land, is dependent on understanding the local ecology. This study examines the farming methods used by West African smallholder farmers and pastoralists.
The success of rural development schemes in Africa, particularly those involving land, is heavily dependent on understanding the local ecology. Any farmer knows this, yet rarely has development project design catered adequately for the vicissitudes of the African environment. Although environmental unpredictability was recognized in the temperate zone by the mid-nineteenth century, the subsequent development of ecological theory has mostly been based on a concept of norms and equilibria. History shows that the application of such ecological assumptions to African environments is wholly inappropriate. This book argues that many methods used by West African smallholder farmers and pastoralists are ecologically sound and well suited to the region's unpredictable physical environment. Field examples from the semi-arid and humid zones demonstrate the nature of environmental variability, and the skill of indigenous farmers and pastoralists in exploiting this. It is thus argued that development planners should, where possible, model development schemes on the more successful, ecologically sound methods of indigenous land management.
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INDIGENOUS LAND MANAGEMENT IN WEST AFRICA
[edit] Author
Baker, Kathleen M
[edit] ISBN
0198233930
[edit] Published
19/10/2000
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Oxford University Press
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hardback
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73 (GBP)
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