High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Mortimore (born 1937) 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.