Le développement agricole du Sud-Mali face au désengagement de l'État

Abstract

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Trajectories of agricultural change in southern Mali

“…The study area, the Koutiala district, is representative of the 'cotton zone' of the Sudano-Sahel of West Africa where the income from cotton has allowed farmers to accumulate cattle (Dufumier and Bainville, 2006). Our study shows that this general impression of an increase in wealth and numbers of cattle in the Koutiala region masks a rich diversity of dynamics for different households.…”

“…The farm types were derived from a cluster analysis, for which six variables describing basic farm resources and defining potential land and labour productivity were retained (Dufumier and Bainville, 2006;IER, 1988). Those included (1) total cropped land (ha), (2) number of workers, (3) total household size, (4) herd size, expressed in Tropical Livestock Units (TLU) of 250 kg, (5) number of oxen and (6) number of draught tools (ploughs, weeders and sowing machines).…”

“…Historically, The region has shown promising agricultural intensification pathways linked to cotton production (Benjaminsen et al, 2010;Falconnier et al, 2015b) and cotton earnings have been re-invested in livestock (Dufumier and Bainville, 2006). Livestock contributes to enhanced land productivity and food self-sufficiency (Tefft, 2010), thanks to draught power and manure provision.…”

“…In Southern Mali, cotton earnings have been used to invest in livestock, providing animal traction (Dufumier and Bainville, 2006) and contributing to enhanced land and labour productivity and food self-sufficiency (Tefft, 2010). Smallholder farms are diverse in their resource endowment and production objectives , and respond differently to changing conditions, with the poorest often left behind (Hazell et al, 2010;Valbuena et al, 2014).…”

“…Some Chapter 2 14 explored the long-term impact on land use change of political context, demography and markets at village or regional scale (Benjaminsen et al, 2010;Ebanyat et al, 2010a;Sassen et al, 2013). Other relied on individual recall of household heads to understand how they cope in response to changing production conditions (Dufumier and Bainville, 2006).…”