A01=Donald Crummey
African farmers
Author_Donald Crummey
Category=GTM
Category=RGBC
Category=RNF
Category=RNK
Collaborative research
Environmental change
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Herders
Land use
Pastoral ecologies
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- ISBN 9780852554241
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2003
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work outlines the importance of local knowledge for understanding environmental change.
African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. This interdisciplinary collection uses collaborative research from the major savanna regions which stretch across Africa to make its case, and covers topics such as land users and landscapes, pastoral ecologies and policy, producers and resources. Environmental thinking about Africa is dominated by narratives of degradation and chaos. The contributors demonstrate that the empirical foundations of such long-held views are shaky at best.
Thomas J. Bassett is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign; Donald Crummey is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
