birth_place name birth_date residence article_title birth_name occupation
bermuda michael mortimore 7 september 1937 milborne port , somerset , uk michael mortimore
 michael john mortimore geographer , african drylands specialist
michael mortimore

michael mortimore -lrb- born 7 september 1937 , bermuda -rrb- is 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 runs 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 .
