The long dry season: crop-livestock linkages in Southern Mali
2000
J. Ramisch
This article discusses agro-pastoralist exchanges in Mali. This has increase following the Sahelian droughts of the 1970s and 1980s, in which pastoralists have moved southwards with their herds, into wetter, more productive environments; cultivators are increasingly investing in livestock as the plough replaces the hoe. This paper investigates the interactions brought about by the co-existence of herds and agriculture in a village setting.The article concludes that:agro-pastoral exchanges facilitate agricultural intensificationsuch exchanges are certainly valuable where they permit households to become familiar with technologies and farming systems that have been mastered only by better off farmersthere needs to be a broader recognition of the viability of the cereal-based Fulani farming systemthe agricultural sector is undergoing an increasing level of intensification which co-exists with a growing number of animals. Such a co-existence is based on a number of exchanges between crops and livestock[The origional version of this document is no longer available from the publisher. This summary links to an alternative provider]
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