Land Degradation in Southwestern Burkina Faso: The Environmental Effects of Demographic and Agricultural Change
Gray, Leslie Carroll
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Description
Title
Land Degradation in Southwestern Burkina Faso: The Environmental Effects of Demographic and Agricultural Change
Author(s)
Gray, Leslie Carroll
Issue Date
1997
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Bassett, Thomas J.
Department of Study
Geography
Discipline
Geography
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Physical Geography
Language
eng
Abstract
The second part of the dissertation further explores the issue of for whom degradation is a problem, examining how farmers experience degradation differently; their experiences are influenced by questions of identity (age, gender, ethnicity, class and political power) and access to resources. I focus on how competition over land, an increasingly scarce resource, is enmeshed in discursive struggles about the meanings of land. Individuals and groups manipulate meanings and representations about rights to land and land management strategies in order to lay claim to land. I also challenge the narrative put forward by many in Burkina that investment in land quality is related to security of tenure. Migrants, who generally have the least secure access to land, are creating tenure security through investment in land quality.
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