Politics, Property and Production in the West African Sahel: Understanding Natural Resources Management

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Tor Arve Benjaminsen, Christian Lund
Nordic Africa Institute, 2001 - 333 pages
Understanding natural resources management requires an interdisciplinary approach. Through a number of case studies from the West African Sahel, this book links and explores natural resources management from the perspectives of three distinct but interrelated spheres (politics, property and production) and within a broad and empirically based political ecology.
 

Contents

Understanding Natural Resources
6
Transformations Informelles et Marchés Fonciers Emergents en Afrique
22
Dori and the Art of Alliance
40
Boreholes and the Decentralization
57
Peoples Struggle for Evasion
75
A Comparison of Four
100
History Continuity and Change in Fulani Resource Regimes
117
Questioning some Assumptions about Land Tenure
144
Tuareg Notions of Space and Place in Northern Mali
182
Access to Waters in Nigers Central Delta
208
Overcoming Variability and Productivity Constraints in Sahelian
233
Economic Success but Environmental Failure?
255
Agricultural Productivity
278
Agricultural Expansion and Animal Husbandry in a West African
303
Author presentations
332
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