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| Title: | Adaptive strategies in African arid lands |
| Editors: | Bovin, Mette Manger, Leif |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Pages: | 181 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Uppsala |
| Publisher: | Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (SIAS) |
| ISBN: | 9171063110 |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | pastoralists droughts environment agriculture drylands conference papers (form) 1989 |
| Abstract: | The general aim of this collection of essays, which grew out of a workshop held in Uppsala, April 13-16, 1989, is 1) to delineate the salient features of ecological and socioeconomic adaptations in drylands in Africa; 2) to discuss the contemporary crisis of traditional forms of adaptations and to isolate agents of change; and 3) to analyse the emerging adaptive strategies and coping mechanisms that arise out of the contemporary African crisis. The following articles are included: Nomads of the drought: Fulbe and Wodaabe nomads between power and marginalization in the Sahel of Burkina Faso and Niger Republic (M. Bovin); Agro-pastoralists' response to agricultural policies: the predicament of the Baggara, western Sudan (M.A. Mohamed Salih); Political adaptation: the case of the Wabarabaig in Hanang district, Tanzania (Vesa Matti Loiske); Production versus environment? Planning resource management and ecological adaptation in Kenyan drylands (A.H. af Ornäs); Development projects and peasant associations in Wollo, Ethiopia (Tuomo Melasuo); The process of survival in south-eastern Uganda (M.A. Whyte); A case study of peasants' adaptation to hybrid maize in semi-arid Tanzania (E. Friis-Hansen); Agro-pastoral production systems and the problem of resource management (L. Manger). |