Diversification and Successful Settlement in the River Blindness Control Zone of West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18959119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Della E Mcmillan (0000-0002-1690-9783, United Nations Development Programme, corresponding author), Della Mcmillan |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 269-282 |
| Publication date | 1993-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.52.3.00npk7337537417m |
| OpenAlex | W1992495497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
For centuries, onchocerciasis or river blindness has been an important factor in the under-population of fertile river basins in the West African savanna. It was therefore anticipated that a massive program to control river blindness in West Africa, which started in 1974, would have a positive impact on economic development. This development potential is generally measured in terms of increased crop production. Yet a ten-year restudy of settlers living in river basins covered by control shows a parallel increase in livestock and off-farm employment. Indeed, local opportunities to develop off-farm employment determined the settlers' long-term investment strategies and their willingness to invest in more labor intensive crop production practices. These research results, in addition to other evidence for high levels of diversification in all the major ecozones of Burkina Faso, has implications for the design of development planning in the control zone, which has heretofore focused almost exclusively on intensifying crop production. The settlers who provide the focus of the study live in three of the 12 planned settlement clusters that the Burkina government created in its river basins covered by the control program. The baseline research was conducted in 1978-1979: a tenyear restudy was conducted in 1989
Agricultural economics · Archaeology · Business · Diversification (marketing strategy) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human settlement · Livestock · Population · Socioeconomics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Forestry · French Urban and Social Studies · Land Rights and Reforms
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| Citations per year | 0.07 |
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| Citation span | 1998 - 2001 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |