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Titre :
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The northward expansion of the farming frontier in twentief century central Niger
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Auteurs :
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Delehanty, James Matthew, Auteur
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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University of Minnesota, 1988
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Format :
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512p.; 30cm
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Catégories :
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Thèse de doctorat-Histoire
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Mots-clés:
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Agriculteurs
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Migration nordiste
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Niger
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Résumé :
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The central question posed in this dissertation is straightforward: why have farmers in central Niger moved north toward the desrt du ring this century? The intellectual underoinnings of that question are complex, but it takes no spcial pleading to show that the question is compelling. There is, first of all, a pratical reason to answer it. Twice since 1970 the Sahel has been the scene of great suffering. Neither the famine of the mid-1970s nor the famine of the mid-1980s struck indiscriminately. Rural persons sufferd more tha urbanits. But in numerical terms the people most affected were farmers in remote areas, particulary farmers on the desert edge; those living in the marginally arable zone between the 400 and 200 mm isohyets...
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