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

In: Rural Development in Tropical Africa

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  • Pepe Roberts

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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.

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  • Pepe Roberts, 1981. "‘Rural Development’ and the Rural Economy in Niger, 1900–75," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Judith Heyer & Pepe Roberts & Gavin Williams (ed.), Rural Development in Tropical Africa, chapter 8, pages 193-221, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05318-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_8
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