Transformations de l’agriculture et reconfiguration des terroirs au Sud-Mali : une “pression démographique” à relativiser

Bainville, Sébastien; Dufumier, Marc

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“…The intervention of the public authorities was crucial in this case, particularly within the framework of the extension and subsidising of new equipment (animal traction) for cotton growing, although the ongoing transformations of this agrarian system went well beyond the impact of the cotton growing operations strictly speaking (Bainville and Dufumier 2007). Population growth and crop expansion did not follow the expected path, whereby the time period during which lands remained fallow was reduced and slash-and-burn agriculture accelerated, with all the negative consequences often denounced in such situations.…”

Section: Banana Plantation and Intercropping: Towards A Labour-intensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Agriculture

Cochet

2015

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Section: Banana Plantation and Intercropping: Towards A Labour-intensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Agriculture

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2015

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“…L'agriculture a été, et reste, considérée comme le secteur pouvant répondre aux implications de la croissance démographique et contribuer au développement économique. C'est dans cette optique qu'au sud du Mali et dans le reste des zones de savane, du Sénégal au Cameroun, la culture du cotonnier a été soutenue par les pouvoirs publics afin de fournir un revenu régulier aux ménages agricoles et assurer un développement agricole intégré (Bainville et Dufumier, 2007 ;Soumaré et al, 2019). Les transformations introduites par le coton, une culture commerciale avec une garantie de prix d'achat pour les producteurs, ont contribué aussi au développement des cultures vivrières (céréales et légumineuses) et à l'intégration de l'agriculture et de l'élevage par le développement de la culture attelée et de noyaux d'élevages bovins.…”

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Croissance démographique, sécurité alimentaire et accès à la santé et à l’éducation en zone cotonnière du Mali

Soumaré¹,

Traoré²,

Havard³

2020

Cah. Agric.

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Le Mali a quadruplé sa population entre 1960 et 2020. Cette croissance démographique implique des besoins d’accès à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle, à la santé, à l’éducation et à l’emploi pour les primo arrivants. C’est le secteur agricole qui est sollicité par les politiques publiques pour répondre à cette demande. Quelle est la tendance démographique dans la zone cotonnière du Mali ? Quelles ont été les réponses locales face aux implications de cette croissance démographique en termes d’accès à la santé et à l’éducation ? Le présent article répond à ces questions à travers la mobilisation et l’analyse statistique et spatiale des données sur la production agricole et l’accès à la santé et à l’éducation à plusieurs échelles. Les résultats révèlent : (1) une croissance démographique supérieure à la moyenne du pays mais inégalement répartie, (2) une augmentation progressive de la quantité de céréales (maïs, mil et sorgho) par habitant liée à un accroissement de la production agricole plus rapide que celui de la population et (3) des progrès importants en matière d’accès physique aux infrastructures de santé et d’éducation. Cependant, la croissance démographique et les nouveaux défis liés à la sécurité alimentaire et à la nutrition soulèvent de nouvelles interrogations sur la capacité de l’agriculture à répondre à une demande de produits agricoles plus soutenue et diversifiée.

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“…From there cotton cultivation expanded throughout the district during the 1980s. It was at this point that the cotton/maize rotation system currently common in the area was introduced, along with widespread use of animal traction and chemical fertilizers (Bainville and Dufumier, 2007). This lead to a shift in farming practices away from the traditional systems based largely around sorghum and millet, to a system with home fields devoted to continuous maize/cotton cultivation supported by inputs of mineral fertilizers provided through the CMDT.…”

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“…Mixed crop-livestock systems predominate, with cropping systems based around cotton-maize rotations introduced and promoted by the Malian cotton parastatal "Compagnie Malienne pour le développement du textile" (CMDT). The CMDT facilitated increased cattle ownership in the area with the promotion of animal traction in the mid-1980s, and cotton income allowed successful farmers to increase their herd size (Bainville and Dufumier 2007). In 2013, basic information was collected on all households in the study villages.…”

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“…The most common farming system, introduced 30-40 years ago, is based on rotations of cotton, maize and groundnut. Use of animal traction began to be widely adopted in the 1980s, when the Malian parastatal cotton company, the Compagnie Malienne pour le Développement du Textile (CMDT) began providing credit for the purchase of draft animals and equipment (Bainville and Dufumier 2007). The introduction of cash cropping and animal traction has led to increases in herd sizes and increased use of fertilizers and, more recently, herbicides (Dufumier and Bainville 2006).…”

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Beyond intensification: landscapes and livelihoods in Mali’s Guinea Savannah

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For more than a decade, sub-Saharan Africa has been the focus of calls for a new Green Revolution. Like its predecessor, the African Green Revolution aims to increase the productivity of smallholder farmers, improving their own food security and income as well as that of the continent as a whole. This is to be done with minimum environmental damage, through "sustainable intensification." While sustainable intensification has shown potential in places where high population density precludes cropland expansion, evidence of its effectiveness in land-abundant, labor-limited areas is limited. One such landabundant, labor-limited area is the Guinea Savannah region of West Africa, which the World Bank called a "Sleeping Giant" where agricultural development could drive economic growth both locally and at the national level. Within the Guinea Savannah region, we use southern Mali's Bougouni district as a case study to explore potential futures for smallholder agriculture in the area.We explored the history of the area's agriculture using a panel data set for three villages, as well as remote sensing analysis and census data. Over the period of the panel data (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), agricultural change was minor. Cultivated area per household was highly correlated with household size and the number of draft animals a household owned. This relationship remained constant over the full period, suggesting little change in labor productivity. Yields of major crops remained stagnant, even as fertilizer input increased. Cropland expansion occurred in parallel with population growth, but up to the present, over half the arable land in the study villages was not cultivated.Because uncultivated rangeland made up such a large percentage of the land, we characterized the productivity, management and use of these rangelands (Chapter 3). In two villages, we assessed biomass quantity and species composition at 2-month intervals, tracked a sample of village herds, and used remote sensing combined with regression analysis to map the productivity of herbaceous biomass in a woody savannah landscape. We found that rangelands produced a seasonal peak of 2-2.5 t/ha of herbaceous biomass, from a diverse mix of annual and perennial species, notably Andropogon gayanus and A. pseudapricus. Herds covered distances of 10-18 km each day, with distance and location variable based on the season. During most of the year, the forage supply far exceeded the demands of grazing herds, but in the late dry season forage becomes scarce and herders supplement grazing with cut tree fodders, or send herds on transhumance to the south. While rangelands are exploited for a variety of uses, local management has thus far maintained high levels of productivity and biodiversity.In order to evaluate the potential of sustainable intensification to meet its goals of reducing poverty and improving food security, we explored the solution space of possible gains from intensification f...

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Transformations de l’agriculture et reconfiguration des terroirs au Sud-Mali : une “pression démographique” à relativiser

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Croissance démographique, sécurité alimentaire et accès à la santé et à l’éducation en zone cotonnière du Mali

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