‘Rural Development’ and the Rural Economy in Niger, 1900–75

Pepe Roberts

Chapter 8 in Rural Development in Tropical Africa, 1981, pp 193-221 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Until the exploitation of uranium began in the late 1960s, Niger depended almost entirely upon agricultural and livestock production and was accounted one of the poorest countries in the world in terms of per capita income. Only 2.4 per cent of the entire land area can be cultivated under present conditions (West Africa, 9 July 1979). Agricultural and livestock production has been severely threatened by the process of desertification, the effects of which were to prove catastrophic during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the period referred to as the Sahel drought.

Keywords: Rural Development; Household Head; Cereal Production; Rural Economy; Colonial Rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_8

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