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Article: Fishing and Farming at Lake Chad: Responses to Lake-level Fluctuations.
- Article from:
- The Geographical Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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MARIE-TH[acute{E}]R[grave{E}]SE SARCH
Lake Chad lies at the southern extreme of the Sahara Desert and is well known for large fluctuations in its surface area this century. Seasonal fluctuations, however, have received much less attention. This paper presents the results of two complimentary research efforts on the south-west shore of the lake. These illustrate how important both inter and intra-annual fluctuations in the level of the lake are, both in terms of their impact on the environment and in the response of the communities living on the lake shore. The paper compares a time series of the fluctuations in the level of Lake Chad as monitored by the ...