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La pénurie alimentaire dans la région de la Sangha (Congo)
- Source :
- Tropicultura, Vol 13, Iss 2, Pp 54-58 (1995)
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, 1995.
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Abstract
- Food Deficiency in the Sangha Region - Congo. The problem of food shortage in Sangha region is accompanied by alarming paradoxes. The region offers extremely favorable conditions for the development of agriculture : equatorial climate with abundance of rains and sun, a lot of uncultivated areas, a lot rivers, etc. Despite these advantages, food crops production is insignificant in the light of the very high infant mortality in the area 17.5 % (6), a death rate which is often bound with malnutrition. Contrary to what is commonly admitted, this food shortage is caused neither by natural obstacles nor by a certain passivity or immobility among peasants but by bad agricultural politic in the region. This article investigates these paradoxes and suggests in the same way a frame of analyses and orientations which could help overcome the regions savers food shortage.
- Subjects :
- lcsh:Agriculture
lcsh:S
Food sufficiency Self financing
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07713312
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tropicultura
- Accession number :
- edsair.doajarticles..852e5ebecee41441db36f606d17dea00