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Bassett, Thomas J. Gray, Leslie Carroll 2015-09-25T22:35:14Z 2015-09-25T22:35:14Z 10000-01-01 1997 1997 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. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:35:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9812599.pdf: 12762332 bytes, checksum: a679a5107d9517f20a5cfe0810e4c49a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86441 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 277 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85160 (MiAaPQ)AAI9812599 eng Physical Geography Land Degradation in Southwestern Burkina Faso: The Environmental Effects of Demographic and Agricultural Change text Geography Geography University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.