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Title:Agricultural Intensification and Rural Development: The Mandara Mountains of North Cameroon
Authors:Riddell, James C.
Campbell, David J.ISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:29
Issue:3
Period:September
Pages:89-106
Language:English
Geographic term:Cameroon
Subjects:rural development
agricultural intensification
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/524085
Abstract:There are areas of Africa that have experienced high population concentrations, environmental constraints, and drought long before the present period; the experience of these areas may provide insights relevant to the search for solutions to problems of land pressure today. This paper focuses on one of these regions, the Mandara Mountains of Cameroon, an area which has sustained a high density agricultural population for centuries. It demonstrates that the successful maintenance of high density populations depends upon the evolution of a production system in which environmental management, social institutions, and agricultural pratices are intimately linked. The issue of agricultural development in the Mandara Mountains is discussed in the context of four themes: an examination of the historical circumstances that led to such high population concentrations; the nature of resource management developed by the people to cope with high population density; what happens when the conditions that led to high population density are changed; and possibilities for interaction between local management practices and exogenous innovations in promoting the development of the region. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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