Pastoral economy facing up to uncertainties. Wage labour in the Ferlo (Senegalese Sahel)Original Title (non-English) L'economie pastorale face aux incertitudes Le salariat au Ferlo (Sahel senegalais) [French]

摘要

In the Sahelian context of shocks and structural uncertainties, transhumant breeding has proved its resilience by relying on traditional strategies such as mobility and diversification. Today, 25 percent of the investigated encampments of Ferlo have used a salaried work-force, renewing the delegation of tasks usually handled at the family scale. This article shows wage-labour as a strategy for copying with uncertainties inside the family (work-force availability) and outside (diversification of species and natural resource scarcity) to ensure continuity of herd management as the central pillar of pastoral food security.