The Environmental Crunch in Africa: Growth Narratives vs. Local Realities

Introduction: Promise and peril in Africa: growth narratives vs. local environmental problems; Jon Abbink.- Chapter 1: Cash for cashews: does it add up?; Margaret Buckner.- Chapter 2: Trade-offs between crop production and other benefits derived from wetland areas: short-term gain versus long-term livelihood options in Ombeyi watershed, Kenya; Serena A.A. Nasongo, Charlotte de Fraiture & JB Okeyo-Owuor.- Chapter 3: Agriculture, ecology and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: trajectories of labour-saving technologies in rural Benin; Georges Djohy, Honorat Edja & Ann Waters-Bayer.- Chapter 4: Is growing urban-based ecotourism good news for the rural poor and biodiversity conservation? A case study of Mikumi, Tanzania; Stig Jensen.- Chapter 5: Losing the plot: environmental problems and livelihood strife in developing rural Ethiopia. Suri agro-pastoralism vs. state resource use; Jon Abbink.- Chapter 6: Cameroon's Western Region: an environmental disaster in the making?; Moses K. Tesi.- Chapter 7: The impasse of contemporary agro-pastoralism in central Tanzania: environmental pressures in the face of land scarcity and commercial agricultural investment.- Tadasu Tsuruta.- Chapter 8: Down by the riverside: cyclone-driven floods and the expansion of swidden agriculture in southwestern Madagascar; Jorge Llopis.- Chapter 9: Challenging impediments to climate change initiatives in Greg Mbajojirogu's Wake Up Everyone; Norbert Oyibe Eze.- Chapter 10: Future in culture? Globalizing environments in the lowlands of Southern Ethiopia; Echi Christina Gabbert.