Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental BankruptcyLloyd Timberlake The first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is invaluable reading for anyone interested in Africa. |
Contents
The Backdrop to Despair | |
Misuse of Landy Misuse of Water | |
Overgrazing and the Nomads | |
Forests Fuel and Energy | |
Peasant Farmers Peasant Fishermen | |
Institutionalized Bankruptcy | |
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Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy Lloyd Timberlake Limited preview - 2013 |
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according African countries African governments African nations agricultural aid agencies Angola animals areas Burkina Faso cash crops cattle Chad Ciskei cities continent continent’s crisis cultivation dams deforestation desertification disaster disease donors drought Earthscan economic energy environment environmental bankruptcy erosion Ethiopia export extension workers famine farmers farming fertility fish fisheries food aid food crops forest fuelwood Ghana growing growth hectares herders herds highlands homelands improve increased International investment irrigation Kenya labour land less live livestock Maasai maize Mali marketing million Mozambique Niger Nigeria Nile nomads Northern numbers official organizations overgrazing Oxfam parks pastoralists peasant plant political poor population problems programmes projects rain rainfall rangelands refugees region relief rivers rural Sahel Sahelian schemes Senegal Somalia South Africa square kilometre sub-Saharan Sudan Tanzania tonnes trees tropical urban village wildlife Wollo women wood World Bank yields Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe