Le pastoralisme au Sénégal, entre politique « moderne » et gestion des risques par les pasteurs

Ancey, Véronique; Monas, Georges

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“…The rams from Ferlo are considered suited to the middle class market (Ancey and Monas 2005), as they are small-sized rams. In Ferlo, the market for Tabaski rams is an opportunity to increase incomes for pastoral herders.…”

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How do pastoral families combine livestock herds with other livelihood security means to survive? The case of the Ferlo area in Senegal

Manoli

Ancey

Corniaux³

et al. 2014

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

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Reducing vulnerability to hazards is a major challenge for pastoral settlements in the dry lands of sub-Saharan Africa. Accumulation of a stock of living animals is a major means of livelihood security that pastoralists use to cope with their constraints, amongst which is high environmental variability. Diversification and long-distance mobility are other means of livelihood security, implying specific family organization. We analysed the combination of these means in ensuring the livelihood security of 508 familial settlements in the rural community of Ferlo, Tessekre (Senegal). At least 40% of the settlements surveyed were small pastoral families, composed of one or two households with small herds (less than 50 cows and 50 sheep). Herds were the major means of livelihood security, but due to lack of a sufficient labour and other assets, the situation of these impoverished families was very precarious. In 28% of the settlements, families combined livestock, crops and non-farming activities as livelihood means. The remaining 32% of the settlements were pastoral settlements supported by large cattle herds and, in many cases, the production of Aïd el Kebir rams (for the major Muslim religious event). Non-farming activities were also present in these settlements with large herds, especially activities in the livestock trade. Diversification can reinforce the function of herds as savings accounts and might also enable the pastoralists to invest in livestock activities. There were three groups of settlements based on the characterization of livelihood security strategies used by pastoral herders. Over time, pastoralists have to utilize several means of security to cope with climatic shocks such as droughts, and familial events such as the death of the familial chief. Family organization (dispersal or grouping), diversification and mobility are important means used to recover after major losses of animals.

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How do pastoral families combine livestock herds with other livelihood security means to survive? The case of the Ferlo area in Senegal

Manoli

Ancey

Corniaux³

et al. 2014

Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice

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“…En Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient, des programmes de subvention d'achat d'aliment pour le bétail sont mis en place pour soutenir les éleveurs lors d'épisodes de sécheresse. Ces politiques de gestion du risque calquées sur les systèmes agricoles sédentaires conduisent à des effets pervers (Ancey et Monas, 2005). Alors que coutumièrement, c'est par la mobilité et la fluctuation de la taille des troupeaux que les éleveurs géraient les épisodes de sécheresse, les subventions ont entraîné une forte croissance des effectifs d'animaux conduisant subséquemment au surpâturage des parcours, à une dépendance permanente aux intrants, à un accroissement des coûts de production et à un effet autoentretenu d'intensification des systèmes (Hazell et al, 2001).…”

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Une approche par les communs pour faire valoir le pastoralisme dans les politiques publiques

Aubert,

Dutilly

2023

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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La mondialisation de l’économie et des problèmes environnementaux et sanitaires a influencé les modes d’intervention des politiques publiques en matière d’élevage. Cet article explore les bouleversements induits dans ce secteur et en particulier sur le pastoralisme. Il analyse les tenants et les aboutissants de la reconnaissance, de l’institutionnalisation et de la valorisation économique des activités pastorales par les politiques publiques. Il en ressort que les aspects intersectoriels et multifonctionnels du pastoralisme ont, dans la plupart des cas, été négligés alors qu’ils sont déterminants dans les dynamiques des socioécosystèmes considérés. Aussi, explorons-nous comment l’approche par les communs peut permettre aux acteurs eux-mêmes de promouvoir une gestion adaptative du pastoralisme en réifiant, dans les milieux considérés, les interactions homme-animal dans leur complexité.

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“…used to liberate plant and animal systems from environmental constraints and so maximise production (Griffon et al 2015: 43). As applied to livestock farming, this model, further drawing on negative portrayals of pastoralism, has been the principal force shaping interventions in pastoral development in African drylands (Bernus, 1990;Pouillon, 1990;Hodgson, 1996;Ancey et Monas, 2005).…”

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'(Dis)ordered intensification?' Techno-political models, resource access and pastoralist/agribusiness relations in the Middle Valley of the Senegal River

Magnani¹,

Ancey²,

Hubert³

2019

Nomadic Peoples

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Since the 1990s, the scientific literature has shown how the technical model of intensification of livestock production is ill adapted to the characteristics of semi-arid climates and the pastoral systems operating in them. While this led to changes in the rhetoric of pastoral development, there have been no significant shifts in its conceptual foundations and working methods. This article analyses the forms of this persistence, its effects and its causes in the Valley of the Senegal River through a study of the introduction of a social business dairy project into the pastoral area surrounding the city of Richard Toll. The industrial dairy producers and the pastoralists mutually use each other for their own ends, thereby reinforcing the discrepancy between their objectives and the logic of their systems. The model of intensification is persistent because it plays a political role in constructing alliances between actors from agribusiness, and because choices about land use and resource access are depoliticised and repeatedly made in their favour. The article underlines the urgency of re-politicising and rethinking the logic behind pastoral development and the challenges it faces, and of deconstructing the rhetoric of reconciling profit with social development which serves mainly to reinforce the role that private businesses play in shaping public action.

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Le pastoralisme au Sénégal, entre politique « moderne » et gestion des risques par les pasteurs

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How do pastoral families combine livestock herds with other livelihood security means to survive? The case of the Ferlo area in Senegal

How do pastoral families combine livestock herds with other livelihood security means to survive? The case of the Ferlo area in Senegal

Une approche par les communs pour faire valoir le pastoralisme dans les politiques publiques

'(Dis)ordered intensification?' Techno-political models, resource access and pastoralist/agribusiness relations in the Middle Valley of the Senegal River

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