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Changes in West African Savanna agriculture in response to growing population and continuing low rainfall
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http://oar.icrisat.org/3706/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0167-8809(90)90214-X |
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Changes in West African Savanna agriculture in response to growing population and continuing low rainfall
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Vierich, H I D
Stoop, W A |
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Others
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Changes in village farming systems brough about by population growth and continuing low rainfall, are described for the three main agro-ecological zones in Burkina Faso. The toposequential landuse and cropping patterns were used as the basis for a model, which describes the long-term ecological degradation from declining proportions of fallow land and over-cropping. The implications of these changes for land tenure systems have also been considered. The result provide a human and ecological setting for th current land degradation problem in the West African savanna and thereby indicate possible directions and priorities for future agricultural research.
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Elsevier
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1990
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Article
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/3706/1/JA_645.pdf
Vierich, H I D and Stoop, W A (1990) Changes in West African Savanna agriculture in response to growing population and continuing low rainfall. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 31 (2). pp. 115-132. ISSN 0167-8809 |
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