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Environment and access to resources in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Piers Blaikie
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This article has been written as a contribution to the future orientation of a research programme on the agrarian crisis in Africa, which has been set up by the Joint Committee on African Studies (JCAS) of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. The aim of this article is to provide an agenda for research on the environment and access to resources in Africa and is one of four which both provide a review of some of the most important research issues and suggest ways in which they might be tackled.

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Environnement et accès aux ressources en Afrique: un document programmatique

Le but de ce document est de fournir un programme de recherche sur l'environnement et l'accès aux ressources en Afrique. Il soutient une approche plus ‘localisée’ à la question de la dégradation des terres qui peut à la fois souligner les changements majeurs de l'économie politique agraire en vigueur aux échelles nationale et internationale ainsi que les détails de prises de décision collectives ‘domestiques’ en matière de gestion de l'utilisation des terres. Ce programme de recherche est fondé sur un modèle général de changement du contrôle sur les ressources et les décisions relatives à l'utilisation des terres qui est lui-même lié à un autre modèle qui identifie le processus de prise de décision par rapport à la dégradation des terres.

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Access, control and use of resources in African agriculture
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Africa , Volume 59 , Issue 1: Access, control and use of resources in African Agriculture , January 1989, pp. 18 - 40
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Copyright © International African Institute 1989

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