W. M. Adams, M. J. Mortimore

Working the Sahel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on four years of field research, the authors look at how farmers manage biological resources, crop and non-crop biodiversity, soil fertility, and transform the landscape through agricultural intensification.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415140966
• ISBN-10: 041514096X
• Artikelnr.: 37042468

Autorenporträt

Adams, W.M.; Mortimore, M.J.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Diversity, flexibility and adaptability 3. Four
communities, four systems 4. Negotiating the rain 5. Working nature: using
biodiversity and biomass 6. Making the land work harder 7. When farmers are
not farming 8. Women, children and the house 9. Understanding inequality
10. Managing the managers