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Climate change, vulnerability of food systems and institutional transformations in Senegal

Changement climatique, vulnérabilité des systèmes alimentaires et transformations institutionnelles au Sénégal

Desiree Gmür
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S Felber
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B Owolodun
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L Camara
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A Beye
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T Haller
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This paper deals with increasing vulnerability of food systems in Senegal and argues that this is not just an outcome of climate change but its intersection with changes in institutional conditions of local tenure systems of land and land related common-pool resources (CPRs). While these systems were enabling resilience before colonial times, they were formally undermined by the change to state property and subsequent changes after independence. This also affected the property and management rights of CPRs being food producing resources, thus building the base for many types of food and food security for local people. This contribution focuses on four case studies in the Senegal River Valley, the Boundou area, Bedik Country area and the Lower-Casamance. It looks at the historical development and institutional changes of the commons and how these impact local food systems and household nutrition as well as resilience/vulnerability thereof in the context of external effects such as agro-industrial developments, conservation, and climate change. We argue that although the areas are affected differently by climate change, their resilience against these changes depend on the way land and CPR tenure is still in local ownership or not, and the failure to recognize that conservation areas are not pure nature but cultural ecosystems. While in the Senegal River as well as in the Boundou and Bedik Country area, there are restrictions due to agro-industrial and conservation developments, the Lower-Casamance seems to be still more resilient. However, this area has also undergone institutional changes, especially in social relations which undermine the maintenance of the cultural landscape. This is shaped by labour-intensive traditional rice and fishery infrastructure which cannot be maintained because of lack of family labour due to outmigration by men and youth. This underlines the argument that food vulnerability is not just an effect of climate but as well of institutional change of land tenure and social relations.
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hal-04311193 , version 1 (28-11-2023)

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Desiree Gmür, S Felber, B Owolodun, Camille Ollier, L Camara, et al.. Climate change, vulnerability of food systems and institutional transformations in Senegal. 2022 Edinburgh conference of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE) : Transforming food systems : ethics and responsibility, Eursafe, Sep 2022, Edimburg, United Kingdom. ⟨10.3920/978-90-8686-939-8_4⟩. ⟨hal-04311193⟩
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