Professional trajectories of youth in Saharan neo-agriculture (Biskra, Algeria) reexamined with the agricultural ladder theory

Ouendeno, Mohamed Lamine; Daoudi, Ali; Colin, Jean-Philippe

doi:10.1684/agr.2015.0793

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“…This is in line with the work of Birner et al (2009) and Bruce (2019). These results also show that agro-suppliers disseminate conventional practices, with little consideration of environmental issues, despite the expectations of some farmers, especially small family farms, as observed by other authors in Algeria (Ouendeno et al, 2015) or elsewhere Rebuffel, 2015;Bekkar et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…As a result, agribusiness companies found and capitalized on the space created by producers' demand for agricultural advice. This is the case for input suppliers, especially for vegetable crops and arboriculture (Ouendeno et al, 2015;Laouar et al, 2023). This study aims to investigate how small family farms, lacking direct support from extension services, cope with challenges, including financial resource constraints, and enhance their resilience through the adoption of sustainable farming practices.…”

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The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

Boudedja,

Ameur,

Bouzid

et al. 2024

Cah. Agric.

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This study aims to investigate how small family farms, lacking direct support from advisory services, cope with challenges including access constraints to resources, and enhance their resilience. Investigations conducted in the wilaya of Blida, Algeria, through surveys of 17 input suppliers and citrus growers, revealed how the institutional context, particularly that of private agricultural 241 advisory, incentivizes farms to adopt hyper-intensive agriculture by using more agro-chemicals. Indeed, the arrival of input suppliers into the agricultural advisory landscape has resulted in socio-economic differentiation between farms, with small and most vulnerable farms resisting these intensive models. The results show that even if these small farms face difficulties in existing in the face of the big ones supported by the institutional environment, particularly the private sector, resilience factors have been identified that enable these farms to resist to the steamroller of the intensive model: solidarity between small family farms, pluriactivity, and taking advantage of some state support measures and the public-private partnership of farm advisory services.

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confidence: 89%

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confidence: 99%

The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

Boudedja,

Ameur,

Bouzid

et al. 2024

Cah. Agric.

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“…Greenhouses in this region represent an important source of employment and income for the rural population. Accordingly, they offer small farmers the opportunity to increase their yields and incomes and create job opportunities [24,25]. Thirty years ago, the Biskra region was known for three main agricultural activities, namely date palm, sheep livestock, and cereals production, while in recent years, it has undergone a change in the production system mainly due to the development of greenhouse production.…”

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Impact of Agricultural Policies on the Sustainable Greenhouse Development in Biskra Region (Algeria)

Aidat,

Benziouche,

Cei

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Since its appearance in Algerian agriculture, the greenhouse production system has turned the agricultural sector upside down, bringing great advantages for production in terms of quality and quantity, creating a very important socio-economic dynamic, especially in the Saharan region. This paper makes a new contribution by providing information on the impact of agricultural policies on greenhouse development in Biskra (southeastern city in Algeria). This study aims to understand the type of farms/farmers most specialized in greenhouses as well as the relationship between the use of these land acquisition and financing policies (PNDA) and their degree of specialization in greenhouses. A field survey was held from February to April 2021 in the M’ziraa region (a municipality of Biskra City), completing 97 questionnaires. Collected data were analysed by Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression and Truncated regression. The results show that farmers who used PNDA to acquire the land and for greenhouse investments and those with a lower education level are less likely to specialize in greenhouse production. Similarly, the effect of farm size is negative on the specialization in greenhouse production. Conversely, we found that farmers who do not directly manage the farm and those who have a longer experience with greenhouse production invest a higher share of their land in greenhouses.

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“…The notion of topo-sequence, resulting solely from topographical considerations, is insufficient because it could lead to a comparison of soils of different ages (Boumaraf, Saadi, & Marre, 2016). Thus, a new morpho-pedological approach to soils is adopted by Bétard in 2006, (Bétard & Bourgeon, 2009 to create a new approach to land evaluation in the Saharan region of Ziban one of the most productive agricultural with 4.3 million date palm trees (Faci & Benziouche, 2021), in association with greenhouse cultivation (Ouendeno, Daoudi, & Colin, 2015).…”

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Morpho-Pedology Variations in a Pre-Saharan Region Case Ziban Soils

LAOUAR,

BOUMARAF,

SAADI

2023

AUOG

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During this study, we tried to highlight the main lines of the spatial evolution of the morpho-pedological characters of certain soils, on a sequence established from the geomorphological map in the region. Biskra is an Oasis located in the North-Eastern Sahara of Algeria. After a long prospection, we have established two sequences of soils which have different morphological characteristics. These variations are mainly due to the geomorphological position of the terrain and the favorable hydrological aspect in the first sequence to the formation of gypsum soils compared to the second.

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Professional trajectories of youth in Saharan neo-agriculture (Biskra, Algeria) reexamined with the agricultural ladder theory

Abstract: Les trajectoires professionnelles des jeunes dans la néo-agriculture saharienne (Biskra, Algérie) revisitées par la théorie de l'agricultural ladder

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

The spread of the intensive agricultural model by agro-suppliers in Algeria: implications for citrus small family farms and their adaptations

Impact of Agricultural Policies on the Sustainable Greenhouse Development in Biskra Region (Algeria)

Morpho-Pedology Variations in a Pre-Saharan Region Case Ziban Soils

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