Everyday vulnerabilities and ''social dispositions'' in the Malian Sahel, an indication for evaluating future adaptability to water crises?

International audienceSince the 1970s, precipitation in the Sahel has decreased and become very irregular, leading to widespread drought, whilst the human need for water has rapidly increased. A new ''dispositions''-based approach was adapted in order to analyse human interactions with environmental hazards and applied to the case of Hombori village in northeastern Mali. This article explores how the population and political stakeholders perceive, live with and respond to the increasing scarcity of water. It also explores how their current vulnerability and ability to cope with variations in available water resources indicate future adaptability to climate shocks. On the one hand, this research shows how the population copes with variations in water resource availability: the population's socio-spatial organisation explains the inhabitants' exposure to this problem and some of the factors affecting vulnerability, the elderly and women being the hardest hit. The water issue is generally managed on a ''day-to-day'' basis and considered a big problem only in the dry season, thus lowering any incentive for self-protection. The main two variables that could explain this kind of risk management are the conflicting local governance and current social rules. On the other hand, the discussion of results, based on a conceptual model of social responses, explains why these current ''social dispositions'' to cope with and even address the water scarcity issue do not guarantee future adaptability to climate change

Heurs et malheurs de la gestion communautaire du barrage de Daringa dans la commune de Djougou au Bénin

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Politiques des objets et objets politiques

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Ressources pastorales et territorialité chez les agro-éleveurs sahéliens du Gourma des buttes

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Heurs et malheurs de la gestion communautaire du barrage de Daringa dans la commune de Djougou au Bénin

This paper suggests analyzing an agro-pastoral dam management recently built in the north-center of Benin. It shows the failure to water livestock that revealing split between the sedentary having the territory rights and the Fulani?s breeders who have only secondary rights on the land and on its resources. In spite of a formal community-based inclusive management, they do not succeed to find out themselves in strategic groups to assert their claims.dam, Benin, community, foreclosing, territory, arena

Chapitre 12. Droits au sol et gestion de la fertilité. Deux perspectives différentes : Djougou (Bénin) et Niakhar (Sénégal)

Introduction Ce chapitre propose une réflexion sur le sol comme support des systèmes de production agricoles, pastoraux ou agropastoraux, à travers deux sites d’étude (fig. 1) du programme Escape : Djougou (villages d’Angara, Alhéri et Sew Sewga) et Niakhar (villages de Ndoffane Mouride, Ndoffane Nomad, Sanghaï et Sob), analysés sous deux aspects : la maîtrise foncière (droits d’usage, appropriations, successions, institutions coutumières ou légales), socialement distribuée en fonction des gr..

Droits au sol et gestions de la fertilité : deux perspectives sur la terre des agriculteurs, à Djougou et à Niakhar

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À la rencontre des fontainières des adductions d’eau potable au Burkina Faso et au Bénin Les discrètes transformations d’une fonction subalterne

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Des mini-réseaux d'eau potable : entre enjeux politiques et arrangements locaux. Le cas de la commune de Djougou au Bénin

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Chapter 13. The role of seasonal and pluri-annual migration in reducing vulnerability

Climatic and environmental crises and migration: divergent positions The role of climatic and environmental crises in increasing migration is a subject for debate (Gemmene, 2007). When they bring up the worsening subsistence conditions of populations and increasing migration, environmental specialists highlight the preponderant role of irregular, decreasing rainfall on the one hand and soil degradation on the other. Their work contributing to the emergence of an environmental refugee category..