Indigenous soil and water management in Senegambian rice farming systems

Judith Carney

Agriculture and Human Values, 1991, vol. 8, issue 1, 37-48

Abstract: Considerable attention has focussed on the potential of indigenous agricultural knowledge for sustainable development. Drawing upon fieldwork on the soil and water management principles of rice farming systems in Senegambia, this paper examines the potential of the traditional system for a sustainable food security strategy. Problems with pumpirrigation are reviewed as well as previous efforts in swamp rice development. It is argued that sustainability depends on more than ecological factors and in particular, requires sensitivity to socio-economic parameters such as the labor demands of the food security strategy, the sexual division of labor, and food pricing policies. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

Date: 1991
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