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Interweawing of the crop-livestock system and cotton agricultural production |
Cahiers Agricultures. Volume 15, Number 1, 72-9, Janvier-Février 2006 - Le coton, des futurs à construire, Étude originale
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Author(s) : Éric Vall, Patrick Dugué, Mélanie Blanchard |
Summary : In the cotton zones of West Africa, the increase of anthropogenic pressure on agricultural forest and pastoral resources has intensified agriculture practices and modified relationships in the crop-livestock system. These changes have been studied in three villages in the West of Burkina Faso. Due to a deficit in the management of common resources, the competition for space and resources has resulted in increasing tensions and conflicts between small farming and breeding communities. At the farm production unit level, while exchanges between crops and livestock are progressing, there is room for improvement in the crop-livestock system. A relaxation in government control of the cotton industry has resulted in unreliable provisions for the feeding of livestock (cottonseed cakes). To overcome these difficulties, it appears necessary to adapt access rules to village resources and spaces, to transform the production systems (reinforcement of crop-livestock exchanges) and to strengthen the capacity of farmers’ organisations to buy animal feed from cotton producers and other stakeholders of the cotton networks (oil industry). |
Keywords : vegetal productions, economy and rural development, processing, marketing |
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