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Title:Labour and subsistence in a pastoral economy
Author:Swift, J.ISNI
Book title:Seasonal dimensions to rural poverty / ed. by R. Chambers, R. Longhurst and A. Pacey
Year:1981
Pages:80-87
Language:English
Geographic term:Mali
Subjects:Tuareg
seasonality
food production
Abstract:The Kel Adrar Twareg of north Mali are nomadic pastoralists. Apart from a declining caravan trade and increasing wage labour migration to north African construction sites and oil fields and West African towns, their livelihood comes solely from herds and flocks. The author discusses seasonality in milk production, labour requirements, adaptations to the seasonal pattern, and seasonality and poverty. Seasonality, a critical factor. Explanations for the increasingly procarious situation of Sahelian pastoralism must be sought in the economic, political and ecological changes first set in motion by colonial occupation, which have accelerated in recent years. Diagr., ref. (p.101).
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