Africa in Crisis : The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy

ISBN-13: 9781853830136 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 220 str.

Lloyd Timberlake

Opis

Suitable for those interested in Africa, this first edition focuses on the problems of drought and famine in Africa.

Spis treści

Introduction * A Continent on the Brink * Why Famine: Is The Climate Changing? * The Backdrop to Despair: Importing Poverty - The Population 'Crises' - Health and Poverty * Misuse of Land, Misuse of Water: Overcultivation - Cash Crops Versus Food Crops - Irrigation: The Need and the Reality - The Big Dam * Overgrazing and the Nomads * Forests, Fuel and Energy - Energy and Firewood * Soil and Fish: Peasant Farmers, Peasant Fishermen: Peasants and Rainfed Food Crops - Conserving Africa for Africans - The Fisheries of Africa * Apartheid: Institutionalized Bankruptcy * Conflict, Refugees and the Environment * Aid, Development and the Future: Africa, Is there Hope? References * Further Reading

O autorze

Timberlake, Lloyd