Les savoirs paysans traditionnels conservent-ils encore l’agrobiodiversité au Bénin ?
Can local knowledge still maintain agrobiodiversity in Benin ? Agrobiodiversity, key component of food security is nowadays confronting many global, regional and local changes of agriculture. This study has been conducted to evaluate the impact of those changes on the agrobiodiversiy in developing c...
| Published in: | Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement |
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux
2007-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.pressesagro.be/base/text/v11n3/201.pdf |
| Summary: | Can local knowledge still maintain agrobiodiversity in Benin ? Agrobiodiversity, key component of food security is nowadays confronting many global, regional and local changes of agriculture. This study has been conducted to evaluate the impact of those changes on the agrobiodiversiy in developing countries. The study is undertaken especially in Benin (West Africa) where 60% of people rely upon agriculture for their daily life. Observations were based only on national and local changes. Four mains constraints have been highlighted in agricultural politic of Benin. The most important is the quiet lack of valid and reliable diffusion system of seed. Only few local knowledge as «cultural symbolism of varieties» based on anthropo-economics parameters allowed to maintain diversity. Due to the increasing challenges resulted from modernism, inherited local knowledge failed to efficiently play the same role. Even interventions of formals actors didn’t change the result. The study highlighted the need to implement new policy where actions of all target actors should be addressed in order to ensure dynamic management of agricultural diversity and food security. |
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| ISSN: | 1370-6233 1780-4507 |