Michael Mortimore

Michael Mortimore (7 September 1937, in Bermuda – 10 September 2017) was a British geographer and a prolific researcher of issues in the African drylands. He was an academic in Nigerian universities for over 25 years. He ran a British research consultancy, Drylands Research. He is best known for an anti-Malthusian account of population-environment relationships, ''More People, Less Erosion'', and field-based studies of adaptation to drought. Provided by Wikipedia