[ CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES ET PRODUCTION AGRICOLE : CAPITALISATION DES PRATIQUES CULTURALES POUR LA SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE AU BENIN ]
Volume 23, Issue 1, May 2016, Pages 78–97
Jean Bosco Kpatindé VODOUNOU1
1 Université de Parakou, Département de Géographie, BP 123 Parakou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The capitalization of the farming techniques for food security in Benin has been studied. The effects of climate change and the rainfall changeablenesses have modified not only the dates of seedling but also the abandonment of some speculations. In order to ensure their food security, the populations have revisioned their farming techniques. The climate data which were used for this work are obtained with the ASECNA and those socio-economic were collected near 300 producers. As a matter of fact, in the north 40% of the yielded speculations today can be considered as introduced twenty years ago. In this area in the years 60s there are crops such as yam, voandzou, maize, peanuts, and garden pea. The current crops are yam, maize, and sorghum. Crops such as peanuts, voandzou are more and more withdrawn from the speculation ranges. Furthermore, the situation in the centre of Benin is enough animated. In effect, about 65% yielded speculations in the past were abandoned at the profit of new estimated ones more adapted to the current climatic conditions. To ensure their food security, the populations have spared the speculations such as maize, yam, and peanut. Crops such as sorghum, millet, voandzou and garden peas are almost given up and replaced by soya which represents now the speculation that occupies 45% of the farmed surfaces. In the south of the country, about 30% only of the farming techniques have undergone changes. The climatic changeableness has provoked for instance the introduction of cotton crop which in the past was quasi impossible.
Author Keywords: Food, Climate, Impact, Resilience, Speculation, vulnerability.
Volume 23, Issue 1, May 2016, Pages 78–97
Jean Bosco Kpatindé VODOUNOU1
1 Université de Parakou, Département de Géographie, BP 123 Parakou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The capitalization of the farming techniques for food security in Benin has been studied. The effects of climate change and the rainfall changeablenesses have modified not only the dates of seedling but also the abandonment of some speculations. In order to ensure their food security, the populations have revisioned their farming techniques. The climate data which were used for this work are obtained with the ASECNA and those socio-economic were collected near 300 producers. As a matter of fact, in the north 40% of the yielded speculations today can be considered as introduced twenty years ago. In this area in the years 60s there are crops such as yam, voandzou, maize, peanuts, and garden pea. The current crops are yam, maize, and sorghum. Crops such as peanuts, voandzou are more and more withdrawn from the speculation ranges. Furthermore, the situation in the centre of Benin is enough animated. In effect, about 65% yielded speculations in the past were abandoned at the profit of new estimated ones more adapted to the current climatic conditions. To ensure their food security, the populations have spared the speculations such as maize, yam, and peanut. Crops such as sorghum, millet, voandzou and garden peas are almost given up and replaced by soya which represents now the speculation that occupies 45% of the farmed surfaces. In the south of the country, about 30% only of the farming techniques have undergone changes. The climatic changeableness has provoked for instance the introduction of cotton crop which in the past was quasi impossible.
Author Keywords: Food, Climate, Impact, Resilience, Speculation, vulnerability.
Abstract: (french)
La capitalisation des pratiques culturales pour la sécurité alimentaire au Bénin a été étudiée. Les effets du changement climatique et les variabilités pluviométriques ont provoqué des modifications non seulement des dates de semi mais aussi l’abandon de certaines spéculations. Pour assurer leur sécurité alimentaire, les populations ont révisé leur pratique culturale. Les données climatiques qui ont servi pour ce travail sont obtenues à l’ASECNA et celles socioéconomiques ont été collectées auprès de 300 producteurs. Ainsi, dans le nord, 40 % des spéculations produites aujourd’hui sont introduites il y a moins de 20 ans. Dans cette partie, étaient pratiquées, dans les années 60, les cultures de l’igname, du voandzou, de l’arachide et du pois d’angole. Les productions en cours sont l’igname, le maïs, le sorgho. Les cultures de l’arachide, du voandzou sont de plus en plus abandonnées. Par ailleurs, la situation dans le centre-Bénin est assez mouvementée. En effet, environ 65 % des spéculations produites autrefois sont délaissées au profit de nouvelles, estimées plus adaptées aux conditions climatiques actuelles. Pour assurer leur sécurité en alimentation, les populations ont conservé les spéculations comme le maïs, l’igname, l’arachide. Les cultures du sorgho, du mil, du voandzou, du pois d’angole sont presque abandonnées et remplacées par celle du soja qui représente actuellement la spéculation la plus importante (45 % des espaces cultivés). Dans la partie sud du pays environ 30 % des pratiques ont connu des changements. La variabilité climatique a provoqué l’introduction de la culture de coton qui autrefois était quasi impossible.
Author Keywords: Alimentation, Climat, Impact, Résilience, Spéculation, Vulnérabilité.
How to Cite this Article
Jean Bosco Kpatindé VODOUNOU, “CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES ET PRODUCTION AGRICOLE : CAPITALISATION DES PRATIQUES CULTURALES POUR LA SECURITE ALIMENTAIRE AU BENIN,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 78–97, May 2016.
