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Title LA MOBILITE SPATIALE DANS LE CERCLE DE GOUNDAM (MALI):UNE STRATEGIE DE SURVIE
Full text http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/archive/00000504/03/ep96003.pdf; http://hdl.handle.net/1807/1366
Date 1996
Author(s) Hamadoun, Mahalmoudou
Abstract The sedentary and nomadic communities of Goundam, which is located in the North of Mali, have been going through a crisis for a quarter of a century now. The multifarious droughts which are raging in the area have resulted in the degradation of existing natural resources, the slackening of development efforts, and have driven some into leaving the area. Then new survival strategies emerged, namely the redistribution of the population into the space and the concentration of production systems into the area's southern part, around the lakes, ponds and rivers. Obviously, this high mobility of people is not an unusual phenomenon in the area, for it is the very lifestyle of nomadic groups, but the phenomenon is so important now among sedentary people that it is difficult to identify the "real nomads" in that area. The mobility affects all other economic actors without any differentiation. Moreover, this mobility has also led to a housing and village dynamics (breaking-up of villages and conquest of new spaces), which is not without any consequence on the area's overall evolution. RÉSUMÉ
Subject(s) Public Health
Language en_US
Publisher Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)
Type of publication Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
Format 44347 bytes; application/pdf
Identifier African Population Studies/Etude de la Population Africaine 11(1)
Repository Toronto - University of Toronto
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