Published Articles
Publications resulting from the Four-country study and from current activities - (updated to July, 2007)
Single copies of published articles may be downloaded and printed only for the reader’s personal research and study.
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| Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore | Questioning desertification in dryland sub-Saharan Africa, Natural Resources Forum,26/3, 2002, pages 218-233. This is an electronic version of an article published in Natural Resources Forum 26/3, 2002, 218-233 and is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at |
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| Mary Tiffen | Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: agriculture, urbanization and income growth, World Development, 31/8, 2003, pages 1343-1366. This is a pre-publication version of an article published in World Development, 31/8, 2003, 1343-1366 |
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| Michael Mortimore | Is there a new paradigm of dryland development? Annals of Arid Zone,42/3&4, 2003, pages 459-481. This is a proof version without figures of an article published in Annals of Arid Zone, 42/3&4, 2003, 459-481 |
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| Michael Mortimore | Long-term change in African drylands: can recent history point towards development pathways? Oxford Development Studies, 31/4, 2003, 503-518. Available on the Taylor & Francis website: | |
| Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen | Introducing research into policy: lessons from district studies of dryland development in Sub-Saharan Africa, Development Policy Review, 22/3, 2004, pages 259-286. This is an electronic version of an article published in Development Policy Review 22/3, 2004, 259-286 and is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at |
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| Michael Mortimore | Dryland development: success stories from West Africa, Environment, 47/1, 2005 |
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| Mary Tiffen | Population pressure, migration and urbanisation: impacts on crop-livestock systems development in West Africa, in: T O Williams, S Tarawali, P Hiernaux and S Fernandez-Rivera (eds.), Sustainable crop-livestock for improved livelihoods and natural resource management in West Africa, ILRI-CTA, 2004, page numbers 3-27. Copyright International Livestock Research Institute (reproduced with permission) |
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| Michael Mortimore | Social resilience in African dryland livelihoods: deriving lessons for policy, in: Quentin Gausset, Michael A Whyte and Torben Birch-Thomsen (eds.), Beyond territory and scarcity. Exploring conflicts over natural resource management, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet 2005 page numbers 46-69. |
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| Michael Mortimore, Magatte Ba, Ali Mahamane, R.S.Rostrom, Pau Serra del Pozo, Beryl Turner | Changing systems and changing landscapes: measuring and interpreting land use transformation in African drylands, Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography, 105 (1), 101-118, 2005 | Free access at |
| Michael Mortimore and Frances Harris | This is an electronic pre-publication version of an article published in Land Use Policy, 22, 2005, 43-56 and is posted with permission from Elsevier. Full published version available at |
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| Michael Mortimore and Beryl Turner | This is an electronic pre-publication version of an article published in Journal of Arid Environments, 63, 2005, 567-595 and is posted with permission from Elsevier. Full published version available at |
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| Michael Mortimore | This is an electronic pre-publication version of a chapter appearing in Gospel Omanya and Dov Pasternak (eds.), Sustainable agriculture systems for the drylands, Proceedings of the International Symposium for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture Systems, 2-5 December, 2003, Niamey, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics, 2005: pp191-210 |
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| Mary Tiffen | Urbanisation: impacts on the evolution of 'mixed farming' systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Experimental Agriculture, 42/3 (in press, 2006). A development of the themes in Tiffen (2004, ILRI-CTA) above, with new materials. This is a pre-publication version of an article to appear in Experimental Agriculture, in 2006. |
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| Michael Mortimore | Managing soil fertility on small family farms in African drylands. In: Norman Uphoff, Andrew S Ball, E Fernandes, H Herren, Olivier Husson, Mark Laing, Cheryl Palm, Jules Pretty, Pedro Sanchez, Nteranya Sanginga, Janice Thies (eds.), Biological approaches to sustainable soil systems (Taylor & Francis, New York 2006) pp373-390 Copyright CRC Taylor & Francis. This is a pre-publication version of Chapter 25, 'Managing soil fertility on small family farms in African drylands', in: N. Uphoff (ed.), Biological approaches to sustainable soil systems, Taylor and Francis, to appear 2006. |
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| Mary Tiffen and Michael Mortimore | This is an electronic pre-publication version of an article published in Development Policy Review, 24 (2006), 87-104 and is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at |
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| Anderson, J, Bryceson, D, Campbell, B, Chitundu, D, Clarke, J, Drinkwater, M, Fakir, S, Frost, P, Gambiza, J, Grundy, I, Hagmann, J, Jones, B, Jones, G W, Kowero, G, Luckert, M, Mortimore, M, Phiri, A D K, Potgeiter, P, Shackleton, S, Williams, T | Chance, change and choice in Africa’s drylands. A new perspective on policy priorities? Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR (2003) |
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| Michael Mortimore | Why invest in drylands? Rome: Global Mechanism of the UNCCD (2005) |
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| Michael Mortimore and Adam Manvell | Climate change: enhancing adaptive capacity, NRSP Brief. Hemel Hempstead: DFID/Natural Resources Systems Programme (2006) |
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| Michael Mortimore | Managing agricultural transition in African drylands LEISA Magazine on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture (2006) 22/2: 32-34 Transiçao da agricultura no semi-arido africano, Revista agriculturas experiensias em agroecologia (LEISA Brazil) (2006) 3/3: 29-32 La transition agricole dans les zones arides d'Afrique, Agridape. Revue sur l’agriculture durable à faible apport externs (2006) 22/2: 29-31 La transición agrócola en las zonas áridas africanas, Revista de Agroecología (LEISA Peru)(2006) 22/3: 18-20 |
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| Michael Mortimore | Analysis of the current development trends in dryland areas, with a focus on Africa, and the potential contribution of the UNCCD as an international political spotlight on the needs of their populations (2006). Intersessional Inter-governmental Working Group of the UNCCD. Technical Paper 3: UK Department for International Development. Posted with permission. |
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