La chronologie des années 1913-14 à 1987-88 chez les Touaregs Kăl-ădaɣ du Mali

Sidiyene, Ehya Ag; Klute, Georg

doi:10.3406/jafr.1989.2285

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“…Nomads who survived the great droughts during the 1970s and 1980s say that based on what their parents told them, the drought that hit the area in 1913-1914 must have been the worst (Ag Sidiyene and Klute 1989). While nomads in good years stay within a relatively limited area, they have to move more during bad years to find water and pastures.…”

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One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel

Pedersen

Benjaminsen

2007

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Should pastoralists in dryland Africa diversify or specialize in their productive activities? To investigate this question, we analyze data from a consumption survey and two surveys of the nutritional status of children in addition to qualitative interviews comparing nomadic and sedentary population groups in the Gourma area in northern Mali. We show how the children of pastoralists seem to be better nourished than children of sedentary farmers and that the children of the sedentarized nomads seem to be the worst off. Based on these findings, we first argue that sedentary farming appears to be a poorer adaptation than nomadic pastoralism in arid environments such as the northern Sahel. Secondly, we argue that the diversification argument (better to stand on two legs than one) is flawed for mobile pastoralists in the northern Sahel because the logistical and organizational costs of combining different modes of livelihood are large and easily become insurmountable for a single household.

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One Leg or Two? Food Security and Pastoralism in the Northern Sahel

Pedersen

Benjaminsen

2007

Hum Ecol

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“…The first was to lend logistical and scientific support to a local archive founded and run by Ehya Ag Sidiyene, a well-known Kel Adagh native who had collaborated with several international scholars (e.g. Ag Sidiyene, Bernus and Le Floc'h 1996;Ag Sidiyene and Klute 1989;Ag Sidiyene and Bernus 1989) and whom I had met during an earlier research stay in Kidal in 2011. Until the recent conflict, the archive had been a center of documentation for local Kel Adagh (Tuareg) culture and knowledge and was frequented by members of the local population and by international researchers.…”

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confidence: 99%