Sahel Essay

From the previous week reading we discovered the Sahel. The Sahel is an area of West Africa which is home to a very unique environment. Within the passage, we learn about the after affects of the drought that has ravage the Sahel. As such, many different parts of the world try to come together and help this important area of Africa. As a result, many western influences were brought in to help reenergize the agriculture of the Sahel. But with their minimal knowledge of the Sahel their ideas soon failed. The system that has been In place for centuries in the Sahel is different. With extensive knowledge of how the environment works, the farmers and herders are the one who know how to correctly adapt the environment. The system is as the reading …show more content…
With more knowledge we can better understand how environments such the Sahel can be protected and better well kept. Then as such we can make proposal like R. H. Macleod had a theory that can better improve an environment. The idea that Macleod had was climax agriculture which is “ a system, of production which “recreates the characteristic conditions of the original ecosystem,, does so through use of crop, forage, and timber plants in a carefully managed fashion”. Theory such as this and as well others are supported by the learning of non-western agriculture. Learning more about these different type of environments can better the world and especially the Sahel. With the Sahel resreahing their own agriculture they would not need to rely on outside help that can very much destroy the friage and important environment known as the Sahel.
Together, by protecting and by learning more about cultures such as the one found on the Sahel can help this world in the long run. The understanding of non-western cultures can greatly improve our understanding of our environment and to help better improve such areas like the Sahel in the best way