Working the SahelThis book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment. It draws on four years of field research with farmers in the Sahelian region and builds on work with these communities over several decades. Reporting on studies of four village communities, it shows how people work to achieve sustainable livelihoods and emphasises that there can be development without disaster. |
Contents
Diversity Flexibility and Adaptability | |
Four Communities Four Systems | |
Negotiating the Rain | |
Working Nature | |
Making the Land Work Harder | |
When Farmers are not Farming | |
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Working the Sahel: Environment and Society in Northern Nigeria Michael Mortimore,William Mark Adams No preview available - 1999 |
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adaptability Africa agricultural analysis animals arable areas available labour average Badowoi Balanites aegyptiaca Bayero University cattle cent collaborating households communities constraints cowpea crop Cultivars Dagaceri degradation desertification diversification diversity domestic dry season ecological economic environment environmental fallows family labour farm labour farmers farming season farming system farmland faya fertiliser fields Figure flexibility fodder four villages FulBe Futchimiram global grain grassland grazing groundnut growing period harvest Hausa hectare income increasing indigenous intensification intensity Inuwa irrigation Kambar Kano Kano Close-Settled Zone Kaska kwari labour force labour inputs landraces livelihood livestock Malam Manga manure Mikaila Mortimore natural resources northern Nigeria numbers off-farm activities output peak pearl millet percentage planting plough population density production systems rain rainfall rainfed residues rural Sahel drought Sahelian seven-day period small ruminants smallholders social sorghum strategies sustainable tasks trees Tumbau upland variability vegetation weeding women woodland