Michael Mortimore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95760 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Mortimore |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Mortimore |
| ASSINATURA | MORTIMORE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Drylands Research |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 453 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Africa's Land Rush
Youth Farming and Nigeria's Development Dilemma
Youth farming is undergoing a transformation in Nigeria as the incentive framework for small-scale farming changes. Rural-urban migration, rural poverty, education and the new opportunities it affords, and technological change are among the drivers of this transformation. Meanwhile, as the demand for food commodities increases with urbanisation, an exodus of labour from the countryside threatens food sufficiency at the national level. Agrarian po…
Adapting to drought in the Sahel
The Sahel's experience of adapting to changes in rainfall on a scale at least comparable to that of climate change scenarios, between the 1960s and the 1990s, suggests that lessons can be learnt that may have a wider utility for policy in the future. The Sahel is a major global agroecological region and its success in adaptation will influence the achievement of the global Millennium Development Goals. From simple typologies of adaptation strateg…
Global Desertification
In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global change and sustainability science, suggest that concerns about land degradation, poverty, safeguarding biodiversity, and protecting the culture of 2.5 billion people can be confronted with renewed optimism. We review recent …
Has investor protection been rendered obsolete by the Argentine crisis
Unlike the train of events in previous crises, when the negotiations between the parties–creditors and debtors, investors and host countries– were played out within some kind of institutional framework, the crisis of 2001 portrayed Argentina as a country abandoned to its fate, not just once, but twice. But although investors had initially been able to alter the rules in their favour to secure better protection and enhanced legal certainty, ultima…
La Argentina Y Los Tratados Bilaterales De Inversion
En los aros 1990 se observ6 un crecimiento, sin precedentes, de los flujos de inversion extranjera directa (IED), en niveles que superaron los montos asociados al comercio asi como aquellos movilizados bajo la forma de pristamos financieros (bancarios y oficiales). Aunque los paises desarrollados continuaban siendo los principales receptores de lED, un grupo de paises en desarrollo comenz6 a mostrar un renovado protagonismo. En este periodo tambi…
Do small farmers’ achievements contradict the nutrient depletion scenarios for Africa
Changing systems and changing landscapes
The linkages between global and policy drivers of land use on the \none hand, and land cover data on the other are explored in four \ndryland areas (Machakos/Makueni Districts in Kenya; Maradi Department \nin Niger; Diourbel Region in Senegal; the Kano Close- \nSettled Zone in Nigeria). The findings are that (1) land cover \nchange data are insensitive to short term changes in economic circumstances, \nmainly because a subsistence priority constr…
Targeting Winners
Land Resources Now and for the Future
Farmer adaptation, change and ‘crisis’ in the Sahel
The causes of land-use and land-cover change
Corporate competitiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean
This article looks at the evolution of international competitiveness in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s, focusing on the microeconomic and sectoral aspects. It evaluates the competitive performance of the region’s countries, contrasting it with that of their main competitors in the developing world; it analyses the corporate actors involved, including the subsidiaries of transnational enterprises and large locally ow…
Roots in the African Dust
Roots in the African Dust
Michael Mortimore, Roots in the African Dust: sustaining the drylands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 219 pp., £37.50, ISBN 0 521 45173.6 hard covers, £13.95, ISBN 0 521 45785 8 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Corporate Strategies for FDI in the Context of Latin America’s New Economic Model
Roots in the African Dust
Roots in the African Dust
Agricultural Intensification and Flexibility in the Nigerian Sahel
This paper discusses evidence of agricultural intensification in the Sahelian zone of north-east Nigeria, drawing on data from a five-year monitoring study of soils, cultivars and livelihoods across environmental and demographic gradients. The paper stresses the importance of flexibility in ecological management and in economic activities as components of rural livelihood strategies. In the villages studied, the intensity of agricultural operatio…
Robert McCorkle Netting, 1934-95
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More People, Less Erosion
Malthus controverted
Population growth and land degradation
Flying geese or sitting ducks? Transnationals and industry in developing countries
The constitution of a new international industrial order dominated by a core of large transnational corporations generally makes life more difficult for the great majority of developing countries because, since most are not in a position to compete effectively, they face still greater marginalization
A new international industrial order
There can be little doubt that the present international order, especially in the field of industry, is markedly different from that which existed at the beginning of the century, and even from the order existing after the last war. This new order is distinguished above all by the extraordinary intensity that international competition has assumed in it; by the fact that primarily it only involves a few thousand world-scale transnational corporati…
The causes of land-use and land-cover change
Farmer adaptation, change and ‘crisis’ in the Sahel
Agricultural Intensification and Flexibility in the Nigerian Sahel
This paper discusses evidence of agricultural intensification in the Sahelian zone of north-east Nigeria, drawing on data from a five-year monitoring study of soils, cultivars and livelihoods across environmental and demographic gradients. The paper stresses the importance of flexibility in ecological management and in economic activities as components of rural livelihood strategies. In the villages studied, the intensity of agricultural operatio…
Malthus controverted
Landownership and Urban Growth in Bradford and Its Environs in the West Riding Conurbation, 1850-1950
M. J. Mortimore, Landownership and Urban Growth in Bradford and Its Environs in the West Riding Conurbation, 1850-1950, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, No. 46 (Mar., 1969), pp. 105-119
Corporate Strategies for FDI in the Context of Latin America’s New Economic Model
Roots in the African Dust
Do small farmers’ achievements contradict the nutrient depletion scenarios for Africa
Population growth and land degradation
Adapting to drought in the Sahel
The Sahel's experience of adapting to changes in rainfall on a scale at least comparable to that of climate change scenarios, between the 1960s and the 1990s, suggests that lessons can be learnt that may have a wider utility for policy in the future. The Sahel is a major global agroecological region and its success in adaptation will influence the achievement of the global Millennium Development Goals. From simple typologies of adaptation strateg…
Adapting to Drought
Targeting Winners
Flying geese or sitting ducks? Transnationals and industry in developing countries
The constitution of a new international industrial order dominated by a core of large transnational corporations generally makes life more difficult for the great majority of developing countries because, since most are not in a position to compete effectively, they face still greater marginalization
La Argentina Y Los Tratados Bilaterales De Inversion
En los aros 1990 se observ6 un crecimiento, sin precedentes, de los flujos de inversion extranjera directa (IED), en niveles que superaron los montos asociados al comercio asi como aquellos movilizados bajo la forma de pristamos financieros (bancarios y oficiales). Aunque los paises desarrollados continuaban siendo los principales receptores de lED, un grupo de paises en desarrollo comenz6 a mostrar un renovado protagonismo. En este periodo tambi…
Changing systems and changing landscapes
The linkages between global and policy drivers of land use on the \none hand, and land cover data on the other are explored in four \ndryland areas (Machakos/Makueni Districts in Kenya; Maradi Department \nin Niger; Diourbel Region in Senegal; the Kano Close- \nSettled Zone in Nigeria). The findings are that (1) land cover \nchange data are insensitive to short term changes in economic circumstances, \nmainly because a subsistence priority constr…
Roots in the African Dust
Youth Farming and Nigeria's Development Dilemma
Youth farming is undergoing a transformation in Nigeria as the incentive framework for small-scale farming changes. Rural-urban migration, rural poverty, education and the new opportunities it affords, and technological change are among the drivers of this transformation. Meanwhile, as the demand for food commodities increases with urbanisation, an exodus of labour from the countryside threatens food sufficiency at the national level. Agrarian po…
Has investor protection been rendered obsolete by the Argentine crisis
Unlike the train of events in previous crises, when the negotiations between the parties–creditors and debtors, investors and host countries– were played out within some kind of institutional framework, the crisis of 2001 portrayed Argentina as a country abandoned to its fate, not just once, but twice. But although investors had initially been able to alter the rules in their favour to secure better protection and enhanced legal certainty, ultima…
More People, Less Erosion
A new international industrial order
There can be little doubt that the present international order, especially in the field of industry, is markedly different from that which existed at the beginning of the century, and even from the order existing after the last war. This new order is distinguished above all by the extraordinary intensity that international competition has assumed in it; by the fact that primarily it only involves a few thousand world-scale transnational corporati…
Land and People in the Kano Close-Settled Zone
Landownership and Urban Growth in Bradford and Its Environs in the West Riding Conurbation, 1850-1950
M. J. Mortimore, Landownership and Urban Growth in Bradford and Its Environs in the West Riding Conurbation, 1850-1950, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, No. 46 (Mar., 1969), pp. 105-119
The Changing Resources of Sedentary Communities in Air, Southern Sahara
ASTORAL nomadism in the Sahara appears in the long run to lack a future, since it is unable to produce commodities that can command an assured market, at rising or stable prices, to sustain an increase in living standards. The adoption of a sedentary way of life seems to be a precondition for development. In Air, a region in the northern part of the Republic of Niger, the settlement of nomads has been officially encouraged since 1922, but it is c…
Nigeria
The subsidiary role of direct foreign investment in industrialization
In national industrialization processes, direct foreign investment, together with the incorporation of new technologies, enables the modernization of industry to go hand in hand with the promotion of its development
The greening of Africa
Adapting to Drought
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. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field ev…
The conduct of Latin America’s creditor banks
The international crisis of indebtedness with transnational banks arose from a number of causes, of which the three main ones are the following: the negative repercussions of the world economic situation, the effects of the conduct of borrowers, and the consequences of the behaviour of the main transnational banks. The first two of these have been the subject of exhaustive analysis, but this has not been so in the case of the third cause, mainly …
Adapting to Drought
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. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field ev…
Adapting to Drought
Adapting to Drought
Adapting to Drought
Adapting to Drought
Debt/equity conversion
The intention of this article is to provide certain guidelines and experiences in an area that has been characterized by a good deal of complexity and confusion. Numerous business publications have presented the ease in favour of debt/equity conversion (DEC) programmes, usually from a simplified and orthodox macroeconomic perspective which justifies them in terms of the potentiai double benefit of both reducing the existing external debt (and the…
A new international industrial order
There can be little doubt that the present international order, especially in the field of industry, is markedly different from that which existed at the beginning of the century, and even from the order existing after the last war. This new order is distinguished above all by the extraordinary intensity that international competition has assumed in it; by the fact that primarily it only involves a few thousand world-scale transnational corporati…
Population growth and land degradation
Flying geese or sitting ducks? Transnationals and industry in developing countries
The constitution of a new international industrial order dominated by a core of large transnational corporations generally makes life more difficult for the great majority of developing countries because, since most are not in a position to compete effectively, they face still greater marginalization
Malthus controverted
More People, Less Erosion
Robert McCorkle Netting, 1934-95
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Agricultural Intensification and Flexibility in the Nigerian Sahel
This paper discusses evidence of agricultural intensification in the Sahelian zone of north-east Nigeria, drawing on data from a five-year monitoring study of soils, cultivars and livelihoods across environmental and demographic gradients. The paper stresses the importance of flexibility in ecological management and in economic activities as components of rural livelihood strategies. In the villages studied, the intensity of agricultural operatio…
Roots in the African Dust
Corporate Strategies for FDI in the Context of Latin America’s New Economic Model
Roots in the African Dust
Land Resources Now and for the Future
Geography (27 obras) · Economics (24 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Business (17 obras) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (12 obras) · Ecology (12 obras) · Environmental Science (12 obras) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (12 obras) · Environmental planning (10 obras) · Agriculture (8 obras)