Crue et développement rural dans la vallée du Sénégal: entre marginalisation et résilience

Laurent Bruckmann ()
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Laurent Bruckmann: PRODIG (UMR_8586 / UMR_D_215 / UM_115) - Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - SU - Sorbonne Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité

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Abstract: This article analyzes the relationship between rural development and the flood in the Senegal river valley, here considered as a water resource for natural irrigation. Transboundary water governance and agricultural projects have transformed the hydrological functioning, the agricultural landscape, and marginalized traditional activities. These policies, built on an economic reading of water uses, have shown important limits by the lack of integration of local knowledge and natural heritage. Flood is a water resource actually exploited by the valley populations, and flood recession agriculture is part of an agricultural complementarity with irrigated crops, which must be integrated into the governance processes to ensure sustainable trajectories of development.

Keywords: irrigation; flood; water resources management; resilience; agriculture; West Africa; Senegal river; crue; résilience; gestion des ressources en eau; Afrique de l’Ouest; fleuve Sénégal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Belgeo : Revue Belge de Géographie, 2018, Patrimoine, environnement et développement : sens et contresens pour l’espace rural en Afrique, 2, ⟨10.4000/belgeo.23158⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/belgeo.23158

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