People on the Edge in the Horn

GAIM KIBREAB retired as Professor of Research and Director of Refugee Studies, School of Law and Social Science, London South Bank University in 2021. He is the author of Eritrea: A Dream Deferred (James Currey, 2009), People on the Edge in the Horn (James Currey, 1996) and The Eritrean National Service (2017).

...it is one of the best in-depth studies of land use in Africa that I have come across, and it is certainly important to demonstrate in detail how non-demographic factors are the ultimate causes of resource depletion. -

• Overcultivation and land degradation on the Qala en Nahal scheme; change in vegetation resources; decline in crop yields; the impact of woodfuel use on environmental degradation; overstocking and the problem of overgrazing of range resources; institutions and resource management systems in Eritea - the refugees' resources on the scheme; ecological perception and conservation; population pressure and resource depletion; the farmers' response to land degradation; environmental degradation and predisposition to change; farmers' responses to ACORDs natural resource programmes; conclusion.