Co-evolutionary scenarios of intensification and privatization of resource use in rural communities of south-western Niger

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2005
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Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V.
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Agricultural production in the semi-arid agro-ecosystems of the Sahel centres on cereal staple crops and pastoralism with increasing crop-livestock integration. Animals mobilize soil fertility through manure production, graze crop by-products, and transfer nutrients from distant pastures to cropped areas. Yet in these systems various interacting factors, i.e. climate variability, poor soil fertility, poverty, and institutional constraints limit the capacity of agriculture to keep pace with the growing needs of an increasing human population.

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Rural development, Social impacts, Ecosystem management, Sustainable development, Environmental impacts, Subtropics, Land use management, Pasture management, Modeling, Livestock management, Resource management tools, Natural resource management, Range management, Livestock, Farming systems, Farming systems co-evolution, Sahel, Crop-livestock integration, Bioeconomic modeling, Privatization, Intensification, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governance
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Agricultural Systems 83(3): 251-276