Pasteurs face à la sécheresse : rebondir ou disparaître ? / Shepards faced with drought : survival or disappearance ?

Abstract

Recent periods of drought have followed many other crises, where famine has resulted from drought, epidemics, epizootics and locust invasions. Faced with these catastrophes, shepards have developed numerous strategies, linking mobility and a diversification of resources. Recurrent droughts have led the government and developers to attempt to create groups of breeders similar to the cooperatives which have already been set up in rural areas. Currently shepards are increasingly blamed for practicing a form of pastoralism which is judged outdated.

Rice and trees: Agrarian and landscape dynamics over 40 years on the coast

“…The current environmental crisis has highlighted the urgent need for the assessment of environmental changes (Fyfe, 1981), the identification of the change drivers (Evans and Geerken, 2004), and the integration of these changes in social systems or anthroposystem (Lévêque, 2019) to understand how society has been impacted (Santos and Filho, 2005). Regarding changes in the environment with climate drivers, West Africa has played an interesting role in science with its recent fluctuations in rainfall (Descroix et al, 2015) and its impacts on society and the economy (Bernus, 1995). In the research on ecology or physical geography, the dynamics of the environment resulting from climate fluctuations and/or changes in resource management systems have been studied.…”