Mobility of rural youth and new forms of Saharan agriculture (Biskra, Algeria)

Naouri, Mohamed; Hartani, Tarik; Kuper, Marcel

doi:10.1684/agr.2015.0778

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“…In this way, an agricultural ladder was gradually established and regularised, allowing for some upward socio-professional mobility. Young farmers were able to move, within a few years, from the status of a labourer to sharecropper or even lessee employing several sharecroppers (Naouri et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Empirical Cases Of Algeria's Sahara and The Oghmentioning

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Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance

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Cleaver

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper is motivated by the pressing need to understand how water use and irrigated agriculture can be transformed in the interests of both social and environmental sustainability. How can such change come about? In particular, given the generally mixed results of simplified, state-initiated projects of social engineering, what is the potential for transformations in societal regimes of governance to be anchored in the everyday practices of farmers? In this paper, we address these enduring questions in novel ways. We argue that the concept of bricolage, commonly applied to analysing community management of resources, can be developed and deployed to explain broad societal processes of change. To illustrate this, we draw on case studies of irrigated agriculture in Saharan areas of Algeria and in the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. Our case analysis offers insights into how processes of institutional, technological and ideational bricolage entwine, how the state becomes implicated in them and how multiple instances of bricolage accumulate over time to produce meaningful systemic change. In concluding, however, we reflect on the greater propensity of contemporary bricolage to rebalance power relations than to open the way to more ecological farming practices.

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Section: The Empirical Cases Of Algeria's Sahara and The Oghmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance

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Cleaver

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Algeria ( 8) Badaoui et al, 2019;Bouzid et al, 2020;Daoudi and Lejars, 2016;Difallah et al, 2017;Khaled and Segni, 2016;Naouri et al, 2015;Naouri et al, 2020;Salhi et al, 2012 Egypt (6) Ghareeb and Seif, 2020;Hamad et al, 2020;Abbassy and Ead, 2020;Le and Dhehibi, 2019;Stilt, 2018;Zahran et al, 2020 Morocco ( 6) Ameur et al, 2013;Badraoui et al, 2020;Bouissil et al, 2020;Codron et al, 2007;Fouad et al, 2018;Labbaci et al, 2015 Tunisia ( 7) Aziza et al, 2009;Ben Rejeb et al, 2020;Braiki et al, 2018;Callieris et al, 2016;Dhraief et al, 2019;Dolinska, 2017;Souli et al, 2020 North Africa* ( 2 (cf. marketing/consumption) and intermediate stages (e.g.…”

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“…These include new machines, seed varieties, fertilizers, or pesticides (Singh, 2018), and other new technologies used at the farm level. Indeed, different articles deal with water resources management and irrigation technologies such as drip irrigation (Ameur et al, 2013;Naouri et al, 2015Naouri et al, , 2020Salhi et al, 2012) and mechanized raised-bed technology (Le and Dhehibi, 2019). The addressed product innovations regard new agri-food products such as reduced sugar citrus-based jellies (Ben Rejeb et al, 2020), probiotic cell-free supernatants for inhibition of meat infection (Hamad et al, 2020), alginate from Moroccan brown algae (Bouissil et al, 2020) and Ecoponics tomatoes in Morocco (Codron et al, 2007).…”

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“…The adoption of new farming systems can be considered a process innovation. Examples include precision agriculture (Singh, 2018), agro-ecology (Ameur et al, 2020), Saharan agriculture (Daoudi and Lejars, 2016;Naouri et al, 2015), conservation agriculture (King, 2008;Labbaci et al, 2015;Singh, 2018) or mixed animal-crop farming (King, 2008;Le Gal et al, 2010). Process innovations also include methods for the conversion and consequent use of different types of waste, such as anaerobic digestion (Souli et al, 2020), drying in solar greenhouses (Badaoui et al, 2019), fermentation for the production of bioethanol (Khaled and Segni, 2016).…”

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“…First, innovation is presented as a tool to address many sustainability challenges. These challenges relate to environmental issues such as the scarcity of water resources (Ameur et al, 2013;Difallah et al, 2017;Ghareeb and Seif, 2020;Jovanovic et al, 2020;Kuper et al, 2009;Le and Dhehibi, 2019;Naouri et al, 2020;Narvarte et al, 2018;Salhi et al, 2012), waste (Badaoui et al, 2019;Khaled and Segni, 2016;Lin et al, 2013;Souli et al, 2020), agro-ecosystem disturbance and biodiversity loss (Ameur et al, 2020) or land degradation (King, 2008;Labbaci et al, 2015;Singh, 2018); social issues such as migration (Daoudi and Lejars, 2016;Naouri et al, 2015); or economic issues such as the improvement of the competitiveness and marketing of agri-food products (Callieris et al, 2016). For instance, Ameur et al (2020) point out that irrigated agriculture in North Africa is subject to multiple threats (e.g.…”

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L’agriculture au Sahara du sud-ouest algérien : entre développement agricole moderne et permanences de l’agriculture oasienne traditionnelle

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L’agriculture oasienne reflète l’ingéniosité d’une société ayant pu vaincre un milieu hostile et défavorable au peuplement. En Algérie, cette agriculture traditionnelle a été bouleversée par l’introduction des emplois non-agricoles, qui ont perturbé la stratification sociale établie. Une nouvelle politique de mise en valeur agricole a été instaurée depuis 1983 afin de remplacer l’agriculture traditionnelle considérée comme peu rentable et ne pouvant faire face à de nouveaux problèmes (manque de main-d’oeuvre, déclin des systèmes hydrauliques à foggaras…) et de lancer les régions arides dans une phase de production céréalière en niant l’organisation sociale féodale antérieure. Depuis, l’intérêt de l’État pour cette agriculture moderne s’est manifesté essentiellement par différentes subventions. Tout cela s’est traduit par un recul accéléré de l’agriculture oasienne au profit de l’emploi dans les services et l’administration, ou dans les nouvelles exploitations créées dans les nouvelles zones de mise en valeur agricoles. Cependant, plus récemment, certaines transformations commencent à voir le jour dans des oasis auparavant en difficulté. Dans une période où l’emploi tertiaire est saturé et où les aides de l’État s’affaiblissent progressivement, les oasiens ont décidé de s’adapter en tentant de retourner au travail de la terre dans les palmeraies délaissées, tout en s’orientant vers des cultures rémunératrices. On observe ainsi non pas une concurrence de l’agriculture moderne avec l’agriculture oasienne, mais le développement d’une autre vision, fondée sur la recherche du profit, aussi bien dans l’agriculture saharienne considérée comme moderne que dans celle considérée comme traditionnelle.

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Mobility of rural youth and new forms of Saharan agriculture (Biskra, Algeria)

Cited by 6 publications

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Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance

Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance

Innovation in North African Agriculture and Food

L’agriculture au Sahara du sud-ouest algérien : entre développement agricole moderne et permanences de l’agriculture oasienne traditionnelle

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