Le pastoralisme au Sénégal, entre politique « moderne » et gestion des risques par les pasteurs

Véronique Ancey and Georges Monas — Pastoralism in Senegal: Between modern policy and risk management by livestock raisers. The question of livestock raising in Senegal well illustrates how difficult it is, at times, for policies to take some realities into account. While such policies promptly mobilise recent concepts (such as food sovereignty) or propose modernist network approaches, discourses still often convey ancient clichés on the atavism and irrationality of pastoralists, along with ignorance of local, economic, agro-ecological and societal realities. It is such biased representations that this article puts to question, by examining the sectoral policy implemented in Senegal in order to secure local production systemsAncey Véronique, Monas Georges. Le pastoralisme au Sénégal, entre politique « moderne » et gestion des risques par les pasteurs. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 46, n°184, 2005. La question alimentaire en Afrique : Risque et politisation, sous la direction de Pierre Janin et Charles-Édouard de Suremain. pp. 761-783