Beyond land grabbing narratives, acknowledging patterns and regimes of land control in Senegal

Bourgoin Jeremy, Diop Djibril, Jahel Camille, Interdonato Roberto, Grislain Quentin. 2023. Beyond land grabbing narratives, acknowledging patterns and regimes of land control in Senegal. Land Use Policy, 131:106753, 11 p.

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Géographie-Aménagement-Urbanisme-Architecture

Résumé : Land is central to addressing global development challenges, and land governance is at the heart of paradigms of democracy, justice, sustainability, and resilience. Despite the thoroughly recognized importance of land as a basis for all human-nature relations, the land sector is challenged by mechanisms of commodification and land control. The widely recognized global land rush of the late 2000 s increased the pressure on land, spotlighting in particular the rising demand for arable lands. But despite a growing awareness, the patterns and regimes of dispossession are still subject to blind spots, due in part to a recurring focus on foreign land grabbers, a lack of transparent data on land investments, and several methodological limitations. In Sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world's most targeted areas in terms of land investments, Senegal offers an interesting case study because published data on land control has been limited to foreign land investments. In this study, conducted in partnership with the technical committee of the Senegalese Land Governance Observatory, we propose another way to look at land control in agriculture by encompassing all types of investors at a national scale and focusing on the full ensemble of control processes. In our results, we describe the dynamics of land investments through time and space and identify three different types (or clusters) of investment patterns with specificities in terms of investing stakeholders, crops, and markets. While we highlight the inequality in land distribution and control, we also stress the environmental impacts of large agricultural investments that encroach on common lands and the social consequences of restricting access and use of resources, which further exacerbates the exclusion of local communities.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : utilisation des terres, gestion des ressources naturelles, investissement étranger, petite exploitation agricole, investissement foncier, gestion foncière, accès à la terre, politique foncière, exploitation agricole familiale, développement agricole, sociologie rurale, investissement, gouvernance

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Sénégal

Mots-clés libres : Land control, Large-scale land investments, Agriculture, Land Observatory, Senegal

Classification Agris : E11 - Économie et politique foncières

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Auteurs et affiliations

• Bourgoin Jeremy, CIRAD-ES-UMR TETIS (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-6871-1859 - auteur correspondant
• Diop Djibril, CIRAD-ES-UMR TETIS (FRA)
• Jahel Camille, CIRAD-ES-UMR TETIS (FRA)
• Interdonato Roberto, CIRAD-ES-UMR TETIS (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-0536-6277
• Grislain Quentin, CIRAD-ES-UMR TETIS (FRA)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/608542/)

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