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Title:Studies on the nutrition patterns of population and demographic processes in selected countries of West Africa
Authors:Dobrza'nska, A.
Promi'nska, E.ISNI
Tymolewska, B.ISNI
Year:1991
Periodical:Africana Bulletin
Issue:38
Pages:83-99
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:population growth
nutrition
land use
agricultural land
Abstract:This paper analyses changes in the level of nutrition and in the pattern of selected demographic phenomena in northwest and central-west African countries over the past two decades. The area under study is characterized by various kinds of geographical environment and various climatic zones. Insofar as the pattern of land use is characterized by plant cultivation, the greatest acreage is occupied by cereals, followed by oil plants, leguminous plants - tubers and roots - and plantation plants. A characteristic feature of the population is a relatively high birth rate and a growing natural increase. In Africa, population has more than doubled within the past 30 years, amounting to 470 million in 1980. The provision of nutrition to this increasing population constitutes a serious problem for African governments. An analysis of the daily food intake of the population of West Africa reveals considerable deficiency of energy, protein, fats, mineral elements and retinol in the nutrition of the inhabitants of the Sahel zone and of some countries on the Gulf of Guinea. Bibliogr.
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