A chacun son métier / La recherche sous conditions
The aim of the analysis is to define the role of multiple activity and external sources of incomes in the operation and productivity of the shelfish culture units on the Etang de Thau, a coastal mediterranean lagoon. 52% of operators have other sources of income, in 71% of cases this is from fishing. There are two main problems : defining economic ...
Even when settled, the Fulani have such an intense relation with raising cattle that it tends to transfigure reality. Since this people arrived on the Adamawa Plateau, the position of pastoralism in their society has changed, periods of herding being followed, in an almost cyclic rhythm, by trends toward depastoralization. The importance of raising...
Since the 1972 drought, herders have moved from the Senegal river valley toward southern farming areas with better weather. In the river valley (outside the delta), changes have occured in dry season pastoral migrations. Yearly transhumance toward the valley has been replaced with wide-ranging nomadism, sometimes lasting several consecutive years. ...