ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the demographic, environmental, and political-economic contexts of an urbanizing peasantry in the West African Sahel. It then argues that population mobility plays a significant role in agricultural land-use dynamics, making Boserup's position more geographical by theorizing mobility into a diversity of changing production conditions. The book provides an examination of the geographical context for seasonal circular mobility In southern Niger, after introducing the study region and the theories of West African migration, It explores the context of population and settlement dynamics, based on the contention that one cannot understand how land use affects population mobility without returning to the conditions prior to and during initial settlement. Rural culture should be given the opportunity to demonstrate that it is capable of dynamic change.
