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Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, Issue 10, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, Issue 10, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters
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Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, Fall, Issue 09, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, Fall, Issue 09, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters
No abstract provided.
Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, November 05, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, November 05, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters
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Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, Spring, Issue 04, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, Spring, Issue 04, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters
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Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, April 16, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Ecotones: The Heartbeat Of Huxley, 2001, April 16, Kate Koch, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
Historical Collection of Huxley Newsletters
No abstract provided.
Evolving Tenure Rights And Agricultural Intensification In Southwestern Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray
Evolving Tenure Rights And Agricultural Intensification In Southwestern Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray
Economics
Popular and official representations of the environment in Burkina Faso present soils as fragile and potentially subject to catastrophic collapse in fertility. In the cotton growing zone of southwestern Burkina Faso, researchers and policy makers attribute changes in land cover and land quality to population growth. This paper presents evidence questioning the dominant "population-degradation narrative" as applied to Burkina. We find that farmers are intensifying their production systems. While population has led to land scarcity, farmers are responding to both the resulting uncertainty in land rights and reductions in soil quality by intensifying the production process. Investments are used both …