Niger bookshelf : a selected bibliography on agriculture in the West African semi-arid tropics

contractors, this bibliography lists a wide-ranging array of English- amd French-language documents relevant to the study of agriculture in the semiarid conditions characteristic of Niger and, more generally, of the Sahel. Entries are listed alphabetically, by author, and include a code placing that entry in one of the following categories: (1) geography and climatology; (2) country and sector studies; (3) annual reports of research organizations; (4) farming systems; (5) dryland agronomy; (6) dryland crop production economics; (7) irrigated agronomy; (8) irrigated crop production economics [categories 5-8 are each subdivided into (a) new varieties and (b) improved agronomy]; (9) livestock and animal traction; (10) resource economics; (11) marketing, subdivided into (a) inputs, (b) outputs, (c) international and regional trade, and (d) cooperatives; (12) finance and credit; (13) methodology; (14) extension; (15) Mission reports and project documents; (16) food policy; and (17) drafts, proposals, and works in progress.