The lake Chad, a cosmopolitan agrosystem focused on innovation

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Understanding the Politics of Climate Security Policy Discourse: The Case of the Lake Chad Basin

“…While the Lake Chad crisis clearly has various environmental or ecological dimensions, academic studies have consistently interpreted these as centred on the frontier-style expropriation of land and water resources by elites and state authorities (Mustapha 2014;Watts 2018;also Okolie 1995), rather than on changes in Lake levels or environmentally-induced scarcities. Finally, numerous studies point not just to tensions resulting from environmental changes, including changing Lake levels, in the region but also shared resource management systems and shifts in livelihood strategies and mobility and settlement patterns (Fougou and Abdourahamani 2018;Kolawole 1988;Rangé and Abdourahamani 2014;Sarch and Birkett 2000).…”

Gouvernance foncière et intensification du multi-usage de l’espace

“…occasions d'échanges. Les savoirs et techniques agricoles et halieutiques introduits par les différents groupes se sont généralisés, conférant à l'agrosystème lacustre un caractère à la fois cosmopolite et innovant (Rangé et Abdourahamani, 2014 (Seck et al, 2009). Ils se sont massivement installés dans le delta du Chari, partagé entre Cameroun et Tchad.…”