Abstract
The author has reviewed the Kano conference that met to address the medium and long-term consequences of the 1972-74 drought and their policy implications. The three-day meeting spoke to three broad topics: drought and famine in the West African context, which subsumed local coping strategies and related issues of self reliance; planned development and drought defenses, principally with irrigation, forestry, livestock and water resources; and finally, preparedness for emergencies. Recommendations were drawn up that may provide a framework for future drought planning strategies and related policy making. The author suggests that in spite of some worthwhile projects that emphasized self-reliance and the plans for contingency measures to combat the next famine, the tenor of these meetings was essentially interventionist. This was evident in the accent on irrigation projects, large-scale agriculture developments and capital-intensive water control. He also maintains that preoccupations with new Federal relief agencies, central grain reserves and plans to flood much of the Middle Belt all diverted attention away from the wider political and economic context of drought occurrence among the rural poor.
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Watts, M J.
Conference on the aftermath of drought in Nigeria.
Nigeria: N. p.,
1977.
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Watts, M J.
Conference on the aftermath of drought in Nigeria.
Nigeria.
Watts, M J.
1977.
"Conference on the aftermath of drought in Nigeria."
Nigeria.
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title = {Conference on the aftermath of drought in Nigeria}
author = {Watts, M J}
abstractNote = {The author has reviewed the Kano conference that met to address the medium and long-term consequences of the 1972-74 drought and their policy implications. The three-day meeting spoke to three broad topics: drought and famine in the West African context, which subsumed local coping strategies and related issues of self reliance; planned development and drought defenses, principally with irrigation, forestry, livestock and water resources; and finally, preparedness for emergencies. Recommendations were drawn up that may provide a framework for future drought planning strategies and related policy making. The author suggests that in spite of some worthwhile projects that emphasized self-reliance and the plans for contingency measures to combat the next famine, the tenor of these meetings was essentially interventionist. This was evident in the accent on irrigation projects, large-scale agriculture developments and capital-intensive water control. He also maintains that preoccupations with new Federal relief agencies, central grain reserves and plans to flood much of the Middle Belt all diverted attention away from the wider political and economic context of drought occurrence among the rural poor.}
journal = []
volume = {6:1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Nigeria}
year = {1977}
month = {Jun}
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title = {Conference on the aftermath of drought in Nigeria}
author = {Watts, M J}
abstractNote = {The author has reviewed the Kano conference that met to address the medium and long-term consequences of the 1972-74 drought and their policy implications. The three-day meeting spoke to three broad topics: drought and famine in the West African context, which subsumed local coping strategies and related issues of self reliance; planned development and drought defenses, principally with irrigation, forestry, livestock and water resources; and finally, preparedness for emergencies. Recommendations were drawn up that may provide a framework for future drought planning strategies and related policy making. The author suggests that in spite of some worthwhile projects that emphasized self-reliance and the plans for contingency measures to combat the next famine, the tenor of these meetings was essentially interventionist. This was evident in the accent on irrigation projects, large-scale agriculture developments and capital-intensive water control. He also maintains that preoccupations with new Federal relief agencies, central grain reserves and plans to flood much of the Middle Belt all diverted attention away from the wider political and economic context of drought occurrence among the rural poor.}
journal = []
volume = {6:1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Nigeria}
year = {1977}
month = {Jun}
}