MAZZERO, Hugo; PERROTTON, Arthur; KA, Abdou; GOFFNER, Deborah

doi:10.3390/land10070755

Métadonnées

Afficher la notice complète

Licence d’utilisation du document

MAZZERO, Hugo
Passages

PERROTTON, Arthur
Forêts et Sociétés [UPR Forêts et Sociétés]
Département Environnements et Sociétés [Cirad-ES]

KA, Abdou
Environnement, Santé, Sociétés [ESS]

Langue

Article de revue

Ce document a été publié dans

Land. 2021-07-19, vol. 10

MDPI

Résumé en anglais

A major challenge faced by human societies is to promote development that truly makes difference for people without jeopardizing their environment. This is particularly urgent in developing countries where, despite decades of development programs, local populations often live under poverty thresholds. With this study, we participate in the ongoing debate about the necessary global revision of development theory and practice in the rural Sahel. We retrace the development trajectories in the Ferlo, the northern silvopastoral zone of Senegal. We highlight how development has evolved from the 1940s to the present, from centralized development action programs focused on hydraulic infrastructure to current polycentric development with growing environmental concerns. We highlight multi-scale events that have influenced the successive development paradigms in the area. Focusing on the past thirty years, we analyzed twenty-five environment and natural resource management-oriented projects, describing the evolution of their objectives and actions over time and identifying recurring flaws: redundancy, lack of synergy, and questionable relevance to local needs We put forth that a more resilient thinking-based development paradigm is necessary to guide the growing number of environment-oriented development actions, including the African Great Green Wall, for which massive investments are ongoing throughout Ferlo and across the Sahel< Réduire

Mots clés

LabEx DRIIHM

Observatoires Hommes-Millieux

OHMi Tessekere

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10070755

Project ANR

La gestion des ressources sahéliennes : approches à échelles multiples dans le contexte de la Grande Muraille Verte en Afrique - ANR-15-CE03-0001
Dispositif de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les Interactions Hommes-Milieux - ANR-11-LABX-0010

Origine

Importé de hal

Unités de recherche

Passages - UMR 5319