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Accepted Paper:
The Ila Touba highway, a break in the agrarian landscape in the Old Basin groundnut
Abdoulaye Diagne
(Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
Valdiodio Ndiaye
(Université de Dakar )
Sakho pape
(Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
Paper short abstract:
In this context of program implementation: "major road infrastructure projects", the Ila Touba toll motorway constitutes a major political and economic stake. However, this space event maker in a part of the old groundnut basin is causing concern among agro-pastoralists and transhumant pastoralists.
Paper long abstract:
In this context of program implementation: "major road infrastructure projects", the Ila Touba toll motorway constitutes a major political and economic stake. However, this space event maker in a part of the old groundnut basin with high peasant densities is causing concern among agro-pastoralists and transhumant pastoralists. This article is based on several research studies carried out in Senegal and abroad. Based on survey data and field observations, the article intends to offer a new interpretation of the landscape tested by the effects of this
highway. In short, this reflection raises questions about the destructuring effects operated by this infrastructure: changes in spatial relationships and agrarian practices; the adjustment methods operated by the peasants and transhumant herders and the isolation of a fringe of these lands.
Keywords: Ila Touba highway; space event maker; Old groundnut basin; transhumant pastoralists; agro-pastoralists; agrarian landscape; destructuring effects.