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Restoring regenerative systems of production in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Research requirements
Author(s) -
Gibbon David
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1987.tb00615.x
Subject(s) - redevelopment , principal (computer security) , production (economics) , term (time) , agriculture , arid , temperate climate , regeneration (biology) , engineering , environmental planning , environmental resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , business , geography , civil engineering , environmental science , computer science , economics , computer security , ecology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology , macroeconomics , microbiology and biotechnology
It is the principal proposition of this paper that formal agricultural research, and its supporting policies and planning, has not responded adequately to the special situation that exists in semi‐arid Africa. In many cases the transfer of research approaches based on temperate and more humid tropical experience has contributed to greater instability and the growing environmental crisis. Radically different research structures, objectives, methods and expectations are necessary to contribute to the redevelopment of long term regenerative systems of production that will provide the short and long term needs of the people who live in the semi‐arid regions and at the same time protect these environments.