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| Title: | The African Cultivator: A Geographic Overview |
| Author: | Silberfein, Marilyn |
| Year: | 1977 |
| Periodical: | African Studies Review |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 7-23 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | subsistence economy subsistence farming Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/523751 |
| Abstract: | Focusing attention on subsistence cultivators is one of the logical starting points for examining rural Africa from a geographical perspective. This overview of the rural African is concerned with a sequence of four interrelated factors: 1) the dominant mode of food production; 2) the environmental setting; 3) a scheme for organizing terrestrial space at a local scale; and 4) a systematic approach to migration. Sections Introduction - Systems of production - Environmental hazards (the agricultural continuum; the interdependence continuum; the mobility continuum; other categories of adjustment) -The arrangement of rural settlements - Mobility - Applied geography - Resettlement - Conclusions: prospects for rural development. Ref. |
