Table of Contents

Sustainability of production systems and society in arid and semi-arid Africa, Kwesi Kwaa Prah; debt crisis, national agricultural policies and sustainable development in the Sahel, Fantu Cheru; development of indigenous integrated farming systems in the Sahel, Mike Speirs; the sustainability concept in relation to rural development in the Sahel - offering stones for bread, Henk Breman; problems of defining and evaluating sustainability of agricultural systems, Anette Reenberg and Kjeld Rasmussen; pastoral associations and natural resource management, Poul A Sihm; the UNCED process and the Sahel, Sofus Christiansen; beyond the agricultural crisis in the Sahel, Mossa Seck, Phillipe Engelhard and Taoufik Ben Abdallah; sustainable development - just another pet?, Soren Leth-Nilssen; the Nile, the desert and the people - towards a cultural strategy for environmental action, Soren Skou Rasmussen; the role of nodulating bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi for growth and establishment of trees in Ethiopia and Somalia, Anders Michelsen; aspects of nutrient cycling in three plantations and a natural forest in Ethiopia, Anders Michelsen, Ib Friis and Lisanework Nigatu; agriculture and sustainability in a Danish NGO context, Henning High Jensen; famine and colonial administration, Jens Weise Olesen; notes from concluding session and evaluation, Mike Speirs.