African Crops in the Environmental History of New World Plantation Societies

2016 ◽  
pp. 173-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Carney ◽  
Richard N. Rosomoff
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
New World ◽  
History Of

Ecology and Environment

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McCann
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
New World ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ecology And Environment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Footprint

This chapter examines the ecological and environmental history of modern Africa. It explores the range of environmental challenges faced by Africa’s peoples over the past two centuries of imperialism and globalization and considers the extent to which these challenges were particular to the African continent. After setting out the diversity of Africa’s environments and climatic patterns, it examines levels of biodiversity and endemism, the creation of the forest fallow agricultural system in West Africa, the impact of New World crops, the interaction between disease and landscape in East Africa, and finally the ecological impact of the ‘urban footprint’ in the postcolonial period.

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