Domestic transitions, desiccation, agricultural intensification, and livelihood diversification among rural households on the Central Plateau, Burkina Faso

American Anthropologist

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-288

  West, Colin Thor ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Burkina faso; Households; Modeling; Mossi; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749117632     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01132.x     Document Type: Article

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