Dearth and Deluge: Sustaining Lives and Livelihoods under Threat

Sustainability under threat? The dynamic

Sustainability under threat? The dynamics of environmental change and food production in peri-urban Kano, northern Nigeria

✍ R. A. Maconachie; T. Binns 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 525 KB

## Abstract In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, peri‐urban livelihood strategies have increasingly become recognized as important survival mechanisms for a wide range of actors in the context of rapid urban population growth. Based on field research, which illuminates local actors' knowledg