Cultivation systems and the struggle for household viability under conditions of desert encroachment

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Title:	Cultivation systems and the struggle for household viability under conditions of desert encroachment
Author:	Manger, L.O.
Book title:	Problems of Savannah Development: The Sudan Case
Year:	1982
Pages:	133-166
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	droughts land use agricultural land
Abstract:	Data for this paper were collected in the Kheiran area, Northern Kordofan Province, which is threatened by a serious environmental crisis. A description of the main features of activities leading to desert encroachment in the region is followed by their analysis with reference to the factors by stimulating the population to adopt strategies that in a long term ecological perspective are counter-productive. Also discussed are processes of social differentiation emerging as a consequence of different strategies adopted by units in the different opportunity situations of an expanding market economy. Diagr., notes, tab.