UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT MADISON. LAND TENURE CENTER (LTC)
Dynamics of land tenure : the case of the Bakel small irrigated perimeters
Reporting on several case studies conducted in Senegal during January 1987, this paper examines the evolution of land tenure arrangements on the irrigated perimeters in the light of the stratification of Soninke and Toucouleur society.
Bloch, Peter C. · 1987
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Abstract
It suggests that irrigation has been as successful as it has been in Bakel only because of a coincidence of factors, some of which have since disappeared: the drought, the threat to continued migration to France, the implementation of the national Law on the National Domain, and the outpouring of development assistance from donors in response to the drought. The cases presented in the paper, from Ballou, Gangala, Senoudebou, Guitta, and Wouro Himadou, provide preliminary evidence that traditional elites were acting either to control the perimeters for their own benefit or to limit their success. (Author abstract, from PN-ABF-250)
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