Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel

Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities

Allan G. Hill

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317856931
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Nutrizione, dietetica e bariatria

This collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Several important features of the Sahel are illustrated: the significance of seasonal factors in causing periodic stress amongst people and animals, the economic uncertainty introduced by interannual climactic variations, as well as the role of traditional systems of social and economic organisation in providing some support during periods of need. The findings presented here are published in co-operation with the Sahel Institute, a regional research organisation set up in the early 1970s with representation from eight Sahelian countries - Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of tables
• List of figures
• List of drawings
• Preface
• Editor’s Introduction
• Chapter 1 : Issues in the study of the demography of Sahelian pastoralists and agro-pastoralists
• Chapter 2 : The recent demographic surveys in Mali and their main findings
• Chapter 3 : The enumeration of nomads and semi-nomads: methodology and selected results from the 1976 census of Mali
• Chapter 4 : A demographic profile of the Fulani of central Mali with special emphasis on infant and child mortality
• Chapter 5 : Demographic characteristics and trends amongst the nomads of Mauritania
• Chapter 6 : Mixed herding and the demographic parameters of domestic animals in arid and semi-arid zones of tropical Africa
• Chapter 7 : Land tenure practice and development problems in Mali: the case of the Niger Delta
• Chapter 8 : The reluctant spouse and the illegitimate slave: marriage, household formation and demographic behaviour amongst Malian Tamasheq from the Niger Delta and the Gourma
• Chapter 9 : Child mortality and care of children in rural Mali
• Chapter 10 : Nutrition amongst a group of WoDaaBe (Fulani Bororo) pastoraliste in Niger
• Chapter 11 : Preliminary findings on the diet and nutritional status of some Tamasheq and Fulani groups in the Niger Delta of central Mali
• Chapter 12 : Assessing the components of seasonal stress amongst Fulani of the Seno-Mango, central Mali
• Chapter 13 : Design of a food intake study in two Bambara villages in the Ségou Region of Mali with preliminary findings
• Chapter 14 : The health of nomads and semi-nomads of the Malian Gourma: an epidemiological approach
• Chapter 15 : The World Fertility Survey: questionnaires and analysis with special reference to Africa
• References
• About the authors
• List of Participants at the meeting on the Demography, Social Structure and Welfare of Sahelian Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Communities, Bamako, 24–27 January 1983
• Index