Indigenous Land Management in West Africa An Environmental Balancing Act [Hardcover]

This book examines tropical resource management in West Africa. Drawing widely on field examples, it argues that more account should be taken of ecological conditions and indigenous land-use methods in decision-making about tropical management projects.

1. Environmental equilibrium and non-equilibrium
2. Problems and prognosis: perspectives on agriculture at a regional scale
3. Small holder adaptation: the humid domain
4. Non-equilibrium and the cocoa sector in West Africa
5. Unpredictable savannah environments
6. Farming in the semi-arid domain: adaptation to an uncertain environment
7. Rangeland and livestock management
8. Conclusions