Seeds of Famine
Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5084477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Watts (0000-0002-8571-0030), Richard Franke (0009-0007-1583-3311), Barbara H Chasin, B Chasin |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel, Richard W Franke, 1981 |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/144141 |
| OpenAlex | W2319217775 |
| Language | EN |
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Drought Impacts in Mexico
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Strategies of Entitlement Protection
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Experiences of Direct Support
Famines and Social Response
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Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi
French Colonialism and The Making of the Modern Sahel
The Horn of Africa
Interrogating the technocratic (neoliberal) agenda for agricultural development and hunger alleviation in Africa
East and Central Africa
The Second World War
The economic evolution of developing Africa
Pan-Africanism Since 1940
Social and cultural change
On the necessity of uneven development
Hunger and Public Action
Food Security and Environmental Degradation in Northern Nigeria
Food and famine
Promoting participation—Seeking sustainability
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Agricultural Policy and Production in Africa
Changing Contexts and Dynamics of Farmer-Herder Conflicts Across West Africa
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Assessment through socioecological abstraction
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Macro-engineering
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Politics of attributing extreme events and disasters to climate change
Soil and human health
Two types of global environmental change
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |