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- W44062070 abstract "I have chosen, for several reasons, to begin my remarks on environmental degradation in semi-arid West Africa with the dramatic words of Mustapha Tolba of the United Nations Environment Program. First, throughout Sudano-Sahelian West Africa, desertification — taken here to mean ‘the impoverishment of arid and semi- arid and subhumid ecosystems by the combined impact of man’s activities and drought’ (Dregne, 1977, p. 324) - occupies a central place in the consciousness of all those directly concerned with the possibilities of material and social improvement in that part of the world. Prior to the United Nations Conference on Desertification in Nairobi in 1977, there was nothing like a consensus on the definition, let alone the aetiology, of desertification (nor, indeed, has there been since). But nevertheless, there has been an explosion of popular and academic writing addressing the gravity of environmental deterioration in the Sahel. And second, there is good reason, as I shall endeavour to show, to question the empirical veracity of Tolba’s views on the extent and rapidity of, in some cases ‘economically irreversible’, desertification. Though this seems to be a simple empirical problem, I believe that, in addition, important theoretical, political and perhaps even epistemological issues are at stake. Above all else, the 1970’s revealed our appalling ignorance of the human ecology of semi-arid ecosystems, most particularly the Sahel; this has been demonstrated in the progressive deconstruction of many of the fundamental assumptions held by development authorities by a new wave of research on pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the Sudano-Sahel. This research has eroded a good deal of what Horowitz (1979) calls ’the anti-nomad bias’. But this revisionist writing and research has succeeded in raising new questions as much as laying to rest the shibboleths of the recent past." @default.
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