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Cattle, Women, and Wells

Managing Household Survival in the Sahel

Toulmin, Camilla (Professor in Practice at the University of Lancaster's Environment Centre (LEC), Professor in Practice at the University of Lancaster's Environment Centre (LEC), Lancaster University)

Cattle, Women, and Wells

Cattle, Women, and Wells

Managing Household Survival in the Sahel

Cattle, Women, and Wells

 

How do people adapt and survive in the harsh environment of the drought-prone Sahelian region, south of the Sahara desert? This work examines choices facing farmers in this region, and includes a discussion of crop choice, attempts to improve yields, investments in equipment, and the effects of these decisions on family and household organization.


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Beschrijving Cattle, Women, and Wells

How people adapt and survive in the harsh environment of the drought-prone Sahelian region to the south of the Saharan desert forms the subject of this book.
The author concentrates on the choices facing farmers in a small village in central Mali, West Africa. These farmers have had continually to adapt their farming methods in order to survive. The study shows how such changes have taken place and why some families are more successful than others in surviving and prospering. It provides an analysis of millet yields, and of returns to investment in ploughs, wells, and breeding cattle. Decisions regarding marriage, child-rearing, and household organization are discussed within an economic framework to demonstrate the strong economic rationale behind choices made in these spheres.
The book concludes that larger, more diverse households found within this society (containing as many as forty to sixty people) are much better able to resist the risks of drought and illness than are small nuclear family groups. Environmental issues are shown to be crucial to the longer term viability of such a community.


ISBN
9780198853046
Pagina's
320
Verschenen
NUR
780
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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