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Dynamics of herd structures and herding strategies in West Africa: a study of market integration and ecological adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Kojo Sebastian Amanor
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Cette étude s'efforce de trouver des variables dans la littérature économique et antropologique sur le pastoralisme qui peut être utilisé afin d'obtenir une vue d'ensemble sur les stratégies d'élevage bovin en Afrique de l'ouest et leur type d'intégration dans un marché régional plus large, dans lequel les différentiations écologiques jouent un role important. Cet article concerne surtout les implications de cette intégration économique pour l'analyse des stratégies d'élevage et il essaie d'identifier les variables que les guardiens de troupeaux bovins manipulent afin de réaliser leurs objectifs en ce qui concerne la gestion des troupeaux et une adaptation à des contraintes particulières et des débouchés sur le marché.

II met le point sur le degré auquel les structures d'élevage reflètent les pratiques de la gestion des troupeaux et l'intégration dans les marchés. Ceci est une variable importante et pas aussi abstraite quʼelle ne semble, puisque l'image originale qui décrit les pastoralistes comme étant autonome et se souciant plus du bétail en vue d'une abondance sociale que d'une efficacité économique, a été crée par les observations d'un grand nombre de taureaux en Afrique.

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Pastoralisms compared
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Africa , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 351 - 394
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Copyright © International African Institute 1995

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