Staple Subsistence Crops of Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4488445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Peter Murdock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1960 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 523 |
| Publication date | 1960-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/212308 |
| OpenAlex | W2008758927 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
N THE present paper sixteen crops that attain the status of staples in the subsistence economies of at least three indigenous societies in Africa are mapped and briefly discussed.' The crops comprise nine cereal grains (barley, eleusine, fonio, maize, pearl millet, rice, sorghum, teff, and wheat), five tubers or root crops (ensete, manioc, sweet potato, taro, and yam), and two fruit trees (banana and date
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Economics · Geography · Subsistence agriculture · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Environmental Science
Bananas
Finger Millet
Panorama historique sur les plantes alimentaires à féculents en Afrique centrale
Assessing the Suitability of the Epic Crop Model for Use in the Study of Impacts of Climate Variability and Climate Change in West Africa
Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900
Ecology of dietary patterns and nutritional status in West Africa†. 1. Distribution of starchy staples
Climate and cropping systems in West Africa
The pattern of world protein consumption
Food and Medicine by What Name? Ethnobotanical and Linguistic Diversity of Taro in Africa
Taro (Colocasia esculenta [L.] Schott) Cultivation in Vertical Wet-Dry Environments
The origin and domestication ofSorghum bicolor
A Proposed Classification of Diet
Some Aspects of Ecology and Social Structure in the Ensete Complex in South-West Ethiopia
Asian Crop Dispersal in Africa and Late Holocene Human Adaptation to Tropical Environments
Historical Population Estimates
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1963 - 2023 (61) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |