The Environmental Crunch in Africa

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
 Introduction: Promise and Peril in Africa—Growth Narratives vs. Local Environmental Problems  (Jon Abbink)....Pages 1-28
 Cash for Cashews: Does It Add Up?  (Margaret L. Buckner)....Pages 29-50
 Trade-Offs Between Crop Production and Other Benefits Derived from Wetland Areas: Short-Term Gain Versus Long-Term Livelihood Options in Ombeyi Watershed, Kenya  (Serena A. A. Nasongo, Charlotte de Fraiture, J. B. Okeyo-Owuor)....Pages 51-83
 Agriculture, Ecology and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trajectories of Labour-Saving Technologies in Rural Benin  (Georges Djohy, Honorat Edja, Ann Waters-Bayer)....Pages 85-112
 Is Growing Urban-Based Ecotourism Good News for the Rural Poor and Biodiversity Conservation? A Case Study of Mikumi, Tanzania  (Stig Jensen)....Pages 113-135
 Losing the Plot: Environmental Problems and Livelihood Strife in Developing Rural Ethiopia—Suri Agropastoralism Vs. State Resource Use  (Jon Abbink)....Pages 137-178
 Cameroon’s Western Region: Environmental Disaster in the Making?  (Moses K. Tesi)....Pages 179-205
 The Impasse of Contemporary Agro-pastoralism in Central Tanzania: Environmental Pressures in the Face of Land Scarcity and Commercial Agricultural Investment  (Tadasu Tsuruta)....Pages 207-240
 Down by the Riverside: Cyclone-Driven Floods and the Expansion of Swidden Agriculture in South-western Madagascar  (Jorge C. Llopis)....Pages 241-268
 Challenging Impediments to Climate Change Initiatives in Greg Mbajiorgu’s Wake Up Everyone  (Norbert Oyibo Eze)....Pages 269-286
 Future in Culture: Globalizing Environments in the Lowlands of Southern Ethiopia  (Echi Christina Gabbert)....Pages 287-317
Back Matter ....Pages 319-324