Scarcity and surfeit : the ecology of Africa's conflicts

70 Scarcity and Surfeit the political economy of land was a significant factor contributing to the civil war and genocide in the ...

Land Scam.ty, Dism'bution and Conflict in Rwanda 71 other inputs. However, these were rarely available to smallholders, and the ...

72 Scarcity and Surfeit Table 2: Food imports 1987-1 99767 rural livelihoods were threatened by environmental stress, dissention ...

Land Scam&y, Distribution and Conflict in Rwanda 73 commentator at the time of the genocide claimed that the ruling elite re ...

74 Scarcity and Surfeit Thus, in the early 1990s, when the ruling regional Hutu elite from north- ern Rwanda was challenged by p ...

Land Scarcity, Distribution and Conflict in Rwanda 75 Although there are few socio-economic analyses of RDCs, there was wide- sp ...

76 Scarcity and Surfeit as Van Hoyweghen observes, apart from villages created in Kibungo and other areas in north-western Rwand ...

Land Scnrn'ty, Distribution and Conflict in Rwanda Transfer of title deeds requires prior consent of all family members. A land ...

78 Scarcity and Surfeit Conclusion Land is not the root cause of the Rwandan conflict. Various factors con- tributed to the onse ...

Land ScamTCIty, Distribution and Conflict in Rwanda 79 peace dialogues in order to identify a lasting solution to the conflict f ...

80 Scarcity and Surfeit doubt that dealing with the issue of land and resource rights in a considered and open way at the level ...

Land Scam'ty, Llishibution and Conflict in Rwanda 8 1 22 The akazu in Kinyanvanda means a 'little house'. The term applied to th ...

Scarcity and Surfeit Homer-Dixon et al, op cit, p 270. Demand-induced scarcity results from population pressure whereas supply- ...

84 Scam.ly and Surfeit ...

Conflitt and Coffee in Burundi Johnstone Summit Oketch ond Tora Polzer' Introduction The small central African country of Burund ...

86 Scarcity and Surfeit Burundi's prima facie environmental problem is the extreme scarcity of land in this small country where ...

Conflict and Coffee in Burundi 87 Explanations of conflict based on environmental and economic factors have had a renaissance in ...

Scarcity and Surfeit Burundi does not have significant amounts of such resources. Burundi's main source of natural wealth is cof ...

Conflict and Coffee in Burundi 89 highly political attitude, especially if expressed by a state machinery and elite class, since ...

Scarcity and Surfeit Background to the Conflict Competition for the state, in the Burundian context, is synonymous with com- pet ...