| Titre | Adaptabilité d'une agriculture tropicale traditionnelle : le pays Dagari (Haute-Volta) | |
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| Auteur | Christian Pradeau | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 58, 1975 | |
| Page | 7-28 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Adaptability of Traditional Farming Methods in Tropical Africa: The Dagari Territory (Haute-Volta).
In studying the agricultural developments and the farming system of the Haute-Volta Dagari, a paleonegritic population, the author found that through numerous though very limited means, traditional fanning methods are being adapted to new conditions. The Dagari are constantly worrying about problems of water control, soil exhaustion and of agricultural techniques. The carrying capacity of their territory reaches, in this specific Sudan climate, 50 people/km2. To achieve this result, they resort to all the farming methods known to preindustrial and precapitalist people: terraced cultivation, draining and irrigation networks, crop rotation and shifting cultivation.
To help solve remaining problems, new techniques obviously should be introduced. But they should take into account the original capacity for adjustement, as revealed by the study of Dagari agriculture, and that has not been the case so far. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1975_num_58_1_2018 |
