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This blog article focuses on the ‘leitmotiv’ of many donors’ and NGOs’ programmes and projects, as well as public policies’ that entrepreneurship will solve the employment challenge in the African countryside. The statics show that by 2030, 375 million young people in Sub-Saharan Africa would have reached the employment age and would be reliant on...
Despite a growing literature highlighting the benefits of agroecology in Africa, policy makers, donors, and scientists are still debating the “viability” of agroecological practices. However, assessing the viability of agroecological practices poses challenges, and so far, no studies have clearly documented them and options for addressing them. The...
The future of pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa has historically raised questions, triggered either from the political perspective of a “productivist” sedentary modernization, or by concerns about its capacity to sup-port sustainable livelihoods and its role in the environment. Such narratives are currently fuelled by the critical combination of de...
En Afrique subsaharienne, l’accroissement sans précédent de la population et la faible
diversification économique interrogent les trajectoires possibles des transitions démo-économiques nationales. Cette situation questionne les transformations du travail qu’il convient d’aborder au prisme du changement structurel. Ce chapitre montre comment une ap...
The future of rural youth employment is a major issue in sub-Saharan Africa because structural transformation is slow. However, youth employment is rarely considered in terms of institutional economics or in a long-term perspective, both of which are essential for analysing structural change. Little research has focused on employment issues and how...
In Sub-Saharan Africa, unprecedented population growth, concomitant with limited industrialisation and job creation, have changed the configurations of rural-urban linkages in recent decades. Indeed, as primate cities do not act as strong engines of growth, territorial dynamics are rapidly being reshaped by renewed flows of people, goods, services...
The unprecedented population growth and low economic diversification in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raise questions about possible paths for demo-economic transitions. Given the limitations of the dominant macroeconomic conception of structural change for analysing economic transformations in SSA, and acknowledging the importance of rural economies in...
The unprecedented population growth and low economic diversification in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raise questions about possible paths for demo-economic transitions. Given the limitations of the dominant macroeconomic conception of structural change for analysing economic transformations in SSA, and acknowledging the importance of rural economies in...
Le Sénégal connaît une demande croissante en travail saisonnier dans le secteur agricole. Dans le cadre de l’agriculture familiale, ce phénomène résulte d’une différenciation socioéconomique au sein de l’agriculture familiale induite par des décennies de soutien de l’État à des modèles productifs agricoles particuliers. Cet article analyse le trava...
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Context and Objectives of the study Rural urban linkages (RUL) - flows of people, information, goods and services between rural and urban areas - are receiving unprecedented attention in the framework of the UN SDGs and the New Urban Agenda (UN Habitat). In fact, the need to move beyond siloed thinking about cities and to unders...
Dans les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne, la transition démo-économique se traduit par une croissance de la population inégalée à l’échelle historique ce qui questionne la capacité des cadres de production actuels à assurer les moyens d’existence des populations, ainsi que leur renouvellement qui permet aux sociétés de perdurer dans le temps. Dans un...
Zambia’s current population and migration patterns are shaped by past trajectories. Up until the 1980s, an urbanization process occurred, due to a vibrant mining industry. During the 1990s, the crash in copper prices and the shutting down of mines induced reverse migration flows from urban to rural areas. From the 2000s, the emergence of new driver...
L’accroissement de la productivité agricole, particulièrement celle du travail, est centrale pour relever les défis du développement de l’agriculture en Afrique sub-saharienne. Les marges de progression sont conséquentes au vu du faible taux de mécanisation actuel. Mais les investissements individuels de la majorité des exploitations agricoles fami...
Agricultural productivity growth, and particularly labour productivity growth, is a major issue considering agricul-tural development challenges at stake in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the mechanization level is currently low, the growth margins are important. However, individual investments in motorization of family farms are constrained by the high co...
Capitalizing on 18 years of experience of shared farm machinery in Benin: such is the project undertaken by the Farm Machinery Cooperative of Benin (UN Cuma) along with its historic partner, the French Farm Machinery Cooperative Cuma Benin.
In 1997 in the village of Ina in Northern Benin, a group of Beninese farmers purchased a tractor and establi...
L’introduction de l’agriculture de conservation comme alternative pour l’intensification durable de la production agricole dans la Boucle du Mouhoun (Burkina Faso) se traduit par le développement de la diversification culturale (DC) dans les exploitations. L’analyse de cette tendance montre le potentiel de la DC pour aider les producteurs à relever...
Dans les zones de savane subhumides d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, le modèle de production agricole inspiré par la révolution verte reste celui proposé aux agriculteurs et aux éleveurs. Il mobilise des intrants chimiques, des équipements et des races et variétés sélectionnées. Cette option a été confirmée après les émeutes de la faim de 2008, l...
Abstract: The motorization of large farms in Southern Mali did not achieve the expected results.Crop
yields did not increase and labor productivity only increased when the cultivated area was significantly
increased. The profitability of the tractor is mainly achieved by services carried out on other farms
(treshing, ploughing and transport). The c...
Avec le désengagement progressif de l’Etat et la privatisation annoncée de la Compagnie Malienne Des Textiles (CMDT), le statut et le rôle des organisations de producteurs de base au Mali-Sud, jugés inadaptés pour participer à la gestion de la filière cotonnière, ont été remis en cause. Depuis 2006, ces associations se sont transformées en coopérat...
Résumé Les organisations paysannes ouest-africaines ont mis en place des services agricoles suite au désengagement des Etats pour faciliter entre autres, l'approvisionnement en intrants et la commercialisation des productions. Le conseil agricole, service immatériel, a été plus rarement pris en compte dans ces évolutions sauf dans le cas de projets...
