The Greening of Africa

by Paul A. Harrison

Paul Harrison, author of the classic bestseller Inside the Third World (Penguin 1992), analyzes Africa's chronic environmental and agricultural problems and surveys the most promising and successful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140101926
• ISBN13: 9780140101928
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent survey of soil and water conservation in Africa

The description of this book here is completely inaccurate. Actually the book is an excellent survey of low cost appproaches to soil and water conservation and reforestation in Africa. The book won for Harrison a United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 award in 1988. Harrison had nothing to do with Museveni's rebellion, and is alive and well: [...]