Publications resulting from the Four-country study and from current activities - (updated to January, 2006)

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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 www.blackwell-synergy.com
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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 Oxford Development Studies* Not available
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 www.blackwell-synergy.com
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Michael Mortimore Dryland development: success stories from West Africa, Environment, 47/1, 2005 View PDF
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. Not available
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
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Michael Mortimore and Frances Harris Do small farmers' achievements contradict the nutrient depletion scenarios for Africa? Land Use Policy, 22, 43-56, 2005 Not available
Michael Mortimore and Beryl Turner Does the Sahelian smallholder's management of woodland, farm trees, rangeland support the hypothesis of human-induced desertification? Journal of Arid Environments, 63, 567-595, 2005 Not available
Michael Mortimore Conditions for sustainable farming systems in Sahelian drylands: what can we learn from 'success stories'? In : Omanya, G and Pasternak, D. (eds.), Sustainable agriculture systems for the drylands. ICRISAT, Niamey, 2005 Not available
Mary Tiffen Urbanisation: impacts on the evolution of 'mixed farming' systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Experimental Agriculture, 42/3 (July 2006, pp 259-287). A development of the themes in Tiffen (2004, ILRI-CTA) above, with new materials.
This is the pre-publication version.
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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 (2006).
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 Forwards to new challenges, not backwards to prescription (a response to Jules Siedenberg). Development Policy Review, 24 (2006), 87-104. Not available
Michael Mortimore 2005 Why invest in drylands? A Report for the Global Mechanism. Rome: Global Mechanism of the UNCCD View PDF
Michael Mortimore 2007 (with James Reynolds, Mark Stafford Smith et al.) 'Global desertification: building a science for dryland development' Science, 316, 11 May, 2007: 847-851 with supporting online material. Available on request
Michael Mortimore

2008 (with Joseph Ariyo, Ibrahim Moussa Bouzou, Salisu Mohammed and Boubacar Yamba) ‘Niger and Nigeria: the Maradi-Kano region. A dryland case study of local natural resource management’ in: Shepherd, G. (ed.), The Ecosystem Approach. Learning from experience. Gland, Switzerland: Commission for Ecosystem Management, World Conservation Union
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Michael Mortimore

'Adapting to drought in the Sahel: lessons for climate change', WIRES Climate Change 2010 1: 134-143 .

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Michael Mortimore et al

Dryland Opportunities: a new paradigm for people, ecosystems and development. Publisher - Gland, Switzerland: World Conservation Union (IUCN) (2009).

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