Mesure de l’efficacité technique des riziculteurs du bassin du fleuve Sénégal

Ce travail a pour objectif de mesurer l’efficacité technique des riziculteurs du bassin du fleuve Sénégal et d’analyser les déterminants de leur inefficacité. Les estimations ont montré que, s’il avait été efficace, le riziculteur moyen aurait pu accroître sa production actuelle de 30 % sans inputs additionnels, contre une marge de progrès potentielle de 86 % pour le riziculteur le moins performant. Les facteurs qui impactent significativement l’efficacité sont le lieu de résidence, le genre, la taille du ménage, le niveau d’instruction, l’ethnie, la distance entre la maison et la parcelle, et le nombre de parcelles cultivées.This article aims at investigating whether rice producers in Senegal have reached their maximal production regarding their available inputs and what are the determinants of their inefficiency. The estimations show that, if he were efficient, the mean producer would increase his actual output by 30% without further inputs while the less performant producer would record a potential margin of progress of 86%. The efficiency determinants are mainly the place of residence, the gender, the household size, the level of education, the ethnicity, the walking distance between the house and the plot and the number of plots farmed

Senegal: Presidential elections 2019 - The shining example of democratic transition immersed in muddy power-politics

Whereas Senegal has long been sold as a showcase of democracy in Africa, including peaceful political alternance, things apparently changed fundamentally with the Senegalese presidentials of 2019 that brought new configurations. One of the major issues was political transhumance that has been elevated to the rank of religion in defiance of morality. It threatened political stability and peace. In response, social networks of predominantly young activists, created in 2011 in the aftermath of the Arab Spring focused on grass-roots advocacy with the electorate on good governance and democracy. They proposed a break with a political system that they consider as neo-colonialist. Moreover, Senegal’s justice is frequently accused to be biased, and the servility of the Constitutional Council which is in the first place an electoral court has often been denounced

A Rise in Humanity

The ePaper presents A Rise in Humanity, the opening lecture of the academic year 2021–2022 delivered by Felwine Sarr at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In his lecture, Mr Sarr explains how societies need to take ownership of their present and future, and proposes paths to reengage at a collective level in order to fill them with meaning. The lecture is preceded by a think piece in which Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Graduate Institute, urges us to collectively work towards the re-enchanting of our humanity – the categorical imperative of our times. It is followed by an interview in which Felwine Sarr shares his thoughts with two young researchers on how to rethink the economy

Blogueur Economie

International audienceThis edition has been presented in a more" technical "way, to help the reader to better stick to the economic, monetary and financial news of Africa, more and more marked by the debate of the FCFA, the banking system , growth / economic development and globalization. In an area such as the economy, any intellectual production must be dependent on the concerns of a moment. Intended for 1st and 2nd cycle students in higher education, this blogger is also aimed at practitioners wishing to bring their quest for reflection as a tool for work and reflection more appropriate

Conversation avec Felwine Sarr : « Penser la restitution à partir de soi »

Felwine Sarr est un écrivain et universitaire sénégalais. Il est Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor d’études romanes à l’Université de Duke en Caroline du Nord après avoir enseigné à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis au Sénégal. Ses travaux académiques portent sur l’écologie des savoirs, la philosophie contemporaine africaine, les politiques économiques, l’épistémologie, l’anthropologie économique et l’histoire des idées religieuses. En 2018, il a été mandaté par le président Emmanuel Macron pour réaliser un rapport sur la question de la restitution du patrimoine africain avec Bénédicte Savoy, publié sous le titre Restituer le patrimoine africain (Philippe Rey-Éditions du Seuil, 2018). Cet entretien réalisé le 22 mai 2021 avec Christine Douxami, anthropologue à l’Institut des mondes africains, tente de mettre en avant à la fois les questions soulevées par le rapport Sarr-Savoy et les différentes possibilités qu’il a ouvertes pour de nombreux pays anciennement soumis à la colonisation, pour l’Afrique notamment, ainsi que les questions artistiques et esthétiques que suscitent les retours, ou non, des objets.Felwine Sarr is a Senegalese writer and academic. He is Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University in North Carolina, having previously taught at the University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. His academic work focuses on the ecology of knowledge, contemporary African philosophy, economic policy, epistemology, economic anthropology, and the history of religious ideas. In 2018, he was commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron to produce a report on the issue of the restitution of African heritage with Bénédicte Savoy, entitled Restituer le patrimoine africain (Philippe Rey-Éditions du Seuil, 2018). This interview conducted on May 22, 2021 with Christine Douxami, anthropologist at the Institut des mondes africains attempts to highlight both the issues raised by the Sarr-Savoy report and the various possibilities it has opened up for many countries formerly subject to colonization, for Africa in particular, as well as the artistic and aesthetic questions raised by the return, or non-return, of objects

La fabrique de l’universel

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Ecologies of knowledges, Economies of the living

Ikọ is a podcast conceived by artist Otobong Nkanga and curator Sandrine Honliasso in the framework of Nkanga’s ongoing work Carved to Flow, started in 2017 and acting as a support structure for initiatives engaged in nurturing social, cultural and economic life in distant and connected geographies. Ikọ is thought as an elastic space that stretches towards multiple geographies, encompasses distinct fields of study and relate heterogenous practices to arouse new readings and modes of creating meanings, relations and goods. Bringing together a wide range of voices intermingling with various audio proposal, Ikọ seeks to expand approaches to contemporary cultural and artistic practices and to allow a plurality of voices to be heard. In this episode, Otobong Nkanga will be hosting a conversation between Felwine Sarr Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University (North Carolina) and Shela Sheikh, Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. The discussion draws parallels between ways of understanding and engaging with living and more than living entities that inform economic processes and production of knowledge. Our guests share their reflection on alternative modes of thinking pluralities of tangible and immaterial resources as a way to build communities of living. Within the Ikọ Zone (Part 1) we will listen to two poems written and read by Kechi Nomu, a poet and writer living in Nigeria. For the Ikọ Zone (Part 2) we will be listening to an Ibibio song and a poem written by Utibe-Abasi Nkanga, polyglot and conference interpreter living in Nigeria

Les frontières de la microfinance

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