Politics, Property and Production in the West African Sahel: Understanding Natural Resources ManagementTor 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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Adagh administrative Africa Afrique agencies agricultural animals Bamako Bisa Burkina Faso camp cattle cent CMDT colonial common conflicts Côte d'Ivoire cotton zone CPRs cultivation d'une Delta Desertification Développement Dialloube Dicko Nassourou Dicko Sanda Dori droits drought economic elite environmental ex-slaves expansion factors farmers farming fertilisers fields foncières food security Fulani Fulbe gestion grain grazing groups Hamdullahi herders herds households important income increased institutions intensification International investment Kakagnan Kenya Koutiala labour land tenure leaders Lergo livestock Mali Mathieu ment migration Mortimore natural resource management NGOs Niger Nigeria nomads nutrient off-farm organisation Ouagadougou Paris pastoral pastorales pastoralists pâturages political politique population population density pratiques processes production units rainfall regime région relations Rimaibe Sahel Sahelian Sanogo sécurisation Senegal Sikasso region situation social strategies Sub-Saharan Africa tenure security terre terroir Thébaud tion transactions transhumance Tuaregs village wadi Yatenga