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Title: | AFRICAN ENCLOSURES? - THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF WETLANDS IN DRYLANDS | |
| Author: | P. WOODHOUSE, H. BERNSTEIN, D.HULME | |
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| Price: | £14.95 | ||
| Publisher: | JAMES CURREY | ||
| Distributor: | PLYMBRIDGE | ||
| ISBN: | 0852554168 | ||
| Format/Size: | 153X234 | ||
| Pages: | 238 | ||
| Publication Date: | 2000 | ||
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| Description: | This book investigates changing land and water use in four wetalnd in dryland areas of Kenya, Mali, Botswana and South Africa. It reveals a dynamic picture of African society. Production patterns change rapidly in response to market opportunities, even in comparatively remote areas These changes are driven largely by local farmers' initiatives. They are often associated with large-scale immigration and an increase in market-based access to land under both 'customary' and private land tenure. The book argues that the social and economic consequences are clear. Large increases in aggregate production widen the gap between winners and losers from the changing terms of access to land and water. The environmental consequences are in fact ambiguous. And yet for more than thirty years Africa's crisis of development has been identified on the international stage as a crisis of environmental management. For instance the United Nations' Agenda 21 sees devolution to to local communities of local resource users as the solution to the twin problems of poverty and environmental degradation. The dynamics of the African enclosures set out here challenge not only 'community-based' models of environmental management as a basis of combating poverty, but also the static vision of African society which underpins them. 'This book deals with an area that is of immediate applied importance as the focus of rapid theroretical advances. The work provides a new challenge to the view that Africa is in environmental crisis, at the same time that it adds a further dimension to set against current Lie of the Land -style interpretations of resource use and management in sub-Saharan Africa. This book emphasises the importance of "commoditization" in driving environmental change... in sub-Saharan wetlands in drylands. ' Katherine Homewood, Professor of Anthropology, University College, London |
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