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    Kofyar cash-cropping: Choice and change in indigenous agricultural development (1989)
    Springer
    Human ecology 17 (1989), S. 299-319 
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    ISSN: 1572-9915
    Keywords: cash-cropping ; indigenous development ; migration ; agricultural labor ; households ; work groups ; Nigeria
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Ethnic Sciences
    Notes: Abstract Amid discussions of an agricultural crisis and the failure of largescale, mechanized, capitalintensive development schemes in Nigeria, the Kofyar of Plateau State provide a case study of farmers spontaneously expanding food crop production for the market, using indigenous lowenergy technology. Temporary, followed by permanent, migration from the Jos Plateau homeland to frontier settlements on the fertile Benue plains has been accompanied by a change from initial shifting cultivation in forest clearings to permanent, intensively tilled and fertilized homestead fields. Labor is organized primarily in households that have grown in size and complexity. Cooperative and exchange work groups are also important for meeting seasonal bottlenecks and providing the careful, disciplined cultivation that intensive agriculture requires. Kofyar now devote up to 50% of their labor to cash crops, and they purchase considerable quantities of manufactured goods and medical services. Their uncoerced adaptation to an environment of new land resources and market incentives suggests both the advantages of indigenous development with a minimum of state control or interference and the limitations of a conventional dependency theory perspective.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00889021
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    “Predatory Sedentism”: Intimidation and Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna (1997)
    Springer
    Human ecology 25 (1997), S. 223-242 
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    ISSN: 1572-9915
    Keywords: agriculture ; population ; settlement ; land tenure ; conflict ; Nigeria
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Ethnic Sciences
    Notes: Abstract While many studies have explored how agriculture changes when population density rises, this paper examines actions farmers may take to control whether population density rises. Using information from ethnographic fieldwork, colonial archives, and air photography, two agricultural groups migrating into an agricultural frontier in the Nigerian savanna are compared. Population density in Kofyar communities has risen to over 100/km 2 ; Tiv communities, although older, have maintained population densities of around 50/km 2 , in part through intimidation of encroachers. This use of intimidation is a component of a distinctive adaptive strategy that includes settlement stability, high population mobility tied to witchcraft accusations, relatively extensive cultivation allowing considerable off-time, and reliance on social networks to facilitate residential mobility and land access. Population pressure must be seen as an integral part of this adaptive strategy, rather than as cause or consequence.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021974122578
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