Adapting to Drought - Farmers, Famines and Desertification in West Africa - Michael Mortimore - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2009 -
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful'be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s.