Case Study: Famine in the Sahel

Urbanization • A way of life that is centered on cities rather than farming and rural communities

Subsistence Farming• Growing food only for one’s own use

Cash Crops• Produce grown primarily to sell

Carry Capacity • The ability of land to support people

and animals

• Limited by rainfall, soil quality and land use

Desertification• The change of cropland into desert

either from natural causes or human activity

Sahel • Zone of Africa south of the Sahara