The Economic Decision and Socio-Cultural Values of Fulani Hersmen in the Tahova Region of Niger

FAIN: GY-10259-75

Robert M. Hecht
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To accomplish much needed research on the economic decision-making process of West African herdsmen, placing economic decisions in a framework of socio-cultural values. To better understand the courses of the profound ecological crisis besetting the West African herdsmen— overgrazing, drought, and starvation--in the light of their herd management system. Field research will be conducted for several months with the Fuloni herdsmen in the Tahova Region of Niger.