ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

Panel 126: Dynamics of disintegration and collapse: African Societies facing hunger, violence and migration (Ulrich Schiefer)

Panel Organiser: Ulrich Schiefer

The population shift from rural to urban of the last 4 decades, influenced by the cumulative effects of external interventions, weakened rural economies and increased external dependency by concentrating people in unproductive cities. This contributed to change the intended “developmental“dynamics of African societies into the downward spirals of disintegration and collapse.
The current “food and energy crisis”, undermines the precarious livelihood of peri-urban and rural societies.

Accepted Abstracts

 
How do external interventions in the field of agriculture and food security interact with the dynamics of rural societies in Africa?
Demographic pressure, running short resources and the failing to appear catastrophe. The dynamics of livelihood strategies among the Moba-Gurma farmers of Northern Togo
Disintegration of African Agrarian Societies: some analytical problems
 
Migrant decision-making in conflict-induced migration in Africa
 
No way out: failed migrants in Mali
 
Invisible dynamics of intervention - turbulences in the grey zone between global dynamics and African Agrarian Societies