RAMS PROJECT Rural Assessment and Manpower Surveys
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF MAURITANIA Honor - Fraternity - Justice Ministry of Economy and Finance Directorate of Studies and Programming RAMS PROJECT Rural Assessment and Manpower Surveys SOCIAL CI N( SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTRAL PRODCTION A.S. 8 - 2 Financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) With the cooperation of: Checchi and Compan), Washington, D.C. 20036 Louis Berger International, Inc., East Orange, New Jersey 07019 Action Programs International, Santa Monica, California 90406 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1980 Page INTRODUCTION I Land Ownership • The Tradition ......... 3....3 A. The Moors ...... ... .. ..... ....... 6 Be The ol ....... .000000. 13 C. The Soninke .............................. 18 D. Socio-Political Power and the Control of Space ! a Concept of Land Ownership ....... 23 II The Cultivators : Changes in the Agricultural Labor Fc'zce .... ........... 27 A. The Haratine : A Social Class in Mutation.. 29 B. Labor along the River ........ 39 C. Motivation and Agricultural Labor ......... 45 D. Women in Agriculture ............... ....... 50 III Agriculture and Development .................. 52 A. Social Constraints to Development ......... 53 1. Herders and Cultivators ................ 54 2. Social and Cultural Habits ............. 56 B. Social Change, Irrigation and SONADER ..... 62 1. Positive Impacts ............. ...... ... 64 2. Negative Impacts ............ ..... ... 69 Conclusion . .. ... 79 Bibliography ... a.. ............. 84 ,.'; :. "+SOCIAL'ORMANZATION" OF-,RICULTURAt;°bUC'kION " INTRODUCTION ,The catalyst of change, in.all rtraditional,-sog$tiqsohas t been the ,impact.an alien monetary economy,,has had.pn,-,al1.!.yq.a of, thpir modes,.,?f lif ,,..their productive vstems, .,t~eir,social structures and ,elation~hips, and their very.mechanisms ofself sufficiency if not svrvival. A.long history pf-conquest, ,domina- tion and colonial policjs have,,not, spared Maurit~nia from that process.
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