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Title Drought follows the plow : cultivating marginal areas / edited by Michael H. Glantz.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  333.76 D788D    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Drought, desertification and food production / Michael H. Glantz -- Drought -- Desertification -- Food production: the role of marginal lands -- Cultivating the dry margins -- pt. 2. Case studies and conclusions -- The West African Sahel / Michael H. Glantz -- Somalia / Jörg Janzen -- The Brazilian Nordeste (Northeast) / Antonio Magalhães and Pennie Magee -- The dry regions
of Kenya / David Campbell -- Australia / R. Les Heathcote -- Ethiopia / James McCann -- Northwest Africa / Will Swearingen -- The Virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union / Igor Zonn, Michael H. Glantz and Alvin Rubinstein -- South Africa / Coleen Vogel -- Is the stork outrunning the plow? / Michael H. Glantz.
Subject Droughts.
Climatic changes.
Agriculturally marginal lands.
Meteorology, Agricultural.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Added Author Glantz, Michael H.
ISBN 0521442524 hardcover
0521477212 pb
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