essay
Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger
bad year economics : cultural responses to risk and uncertainty • Cambridge [England] • Published In 1989 • Pages: 81-86
By: Legge, Karen.
Abstract
This study of the impact of drought on Fulani pastoral practices discusses such traditional coping strategies as mobility, herd diversification and gathering wild resources, and considers how these practices were negatively affected during the colonial period by taxation, agricultural expansion and wage labor.
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field Date
- no date given
- Coverage Date
- 1890-1984
- Coverage Place
- central and southwestern Niger
- Notes
- Karen Legge
- LCCN
- 88030004
- LCSH
- Fula (African people)