Browsing by Author "Kodio, Amadou"

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    Analyse des modes d'élevage et des ressources pastorales dans la commune rurale de Madiama
    Kodio, Amadou; Adama, Ballo; El Hadj, Meriam; Abaye, Azenegashe Ozzie (2001)
    La commune rural de Madiama est confrontée à des conflits liés à lexploitation des ressources naturelles limitées dont les stratégies d'utilisation actuelles (agriculture, élevage et pêche° sont inadaptées (ESPGRN, 1996). La commune couvre 16.700 ha dont 1.073 ha seulement d'espace pastoral. En effet, il faut 3 à (ha, voire 14 ha en saison sèche pour entretenir un UBT. Ces conditions ne permettent plus à la commue de jouer son rôle de zone d'attente des grand troupeaux transhumants de passage pour les bourgoutières du Delta Intérieur du Niger. Ce qui est source de nombreux conflits entre agriculteurs et éleveurs. En saison sèche, tous les troupeaux sédentaires, et une partie des troupeaux semi transhumants et transhumants se retrouvent sur le terroir de la commune pour exploiter les résidus de récolte et les maigres pâturages. En hivernage, l'essentiel des animaux se déplacent à la recherche de pâturage dans les communes voisines ou même en terroir du Burkina Faso. Les connaissances des ressources pastorales et les mouvements des troupeaux sont indispensables à la mise en place d'un plan de gestion localement durable.
  • Analysis of the modes of breeding and pastoral resources in the rural community of Madiama, Mopti Region, Republic of Mali
    Kodio, Amadou; Adama, Ballo; El Hadj, Meriam; Abaye, Azenegashe Ozzie (2001)
    Available also as a conference paper.
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    Analyzing changes in productivity and carrying capacity under planned grazing in Madiama Commune, Mali (West Africa)
    Badini, Oumar; Stöckle, C. O.; Jones, J.; Bostick, M.; Kodio, Amadou; Keita, Moussa (2004)
    This presentation addresses the problems of overgrazing and degradation of pasture land. Policies that can increase pasture productivity and improve the carrying capacity and soil quality of pastures are assessed using CropSyst simulation modeling. Optimal grazing intensity and intervals (rotational grazing) are evaluated and discussed, based on model analysis from the Madiama commune in Mali (West Africa).
  • Conflict and agropastoral development in the Sahel
    Moore, Keith M.; Bertelsen, Michael; Cissé, Salmana; Kodio, Amadou (London, UK: CAB International, 2005)
    This introductory chapter frames the issues of climate and technological change, population growth, and natural resource based conflict. In absence of the state effectively addressing this continued conflict, development assistance has played a major role in West Africa. Through outlining the different roles of development assistance actors, their methods for targeted and participatory interventions, this chapter also sets up an overview of the SANREM West Africa project and provides a general overview of the book.
  • Controlled grazing: Botanical response and animal performance
    Abaye, Azenegashe Ozzie; El Hadj, Meriam; Kodio, Amadou; Keita, Moussa (Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, 2005)
    In chapter 15, Abaye et al. investigated the regenerative potential of pastureland in two villages through a controlled experiment with tethered grazing of small ruminants. This work builds on the Holistic Management (chapter 9) insight that animal impact is not simply a function of numbers of livestock or duration of grazing time in order to provide management indicators that optimize the potential of forage regeneration/biomass production rates, plant biodiversity, and animal performance. The chapter concludes that grazing vegetation down to a 3cm height on any particular parcel is likely to limit forage regeneration.
  • Dry season feed supplements: The potential role of Cassia tora
    El Hadj, Meriam; Abaye, Kodio; Kodio, Amadou; Keita, Moussa (Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, 2005)
    In chapter 14, El Hadj et al. describe research in response to a request by Peul village women to deal with Cassia tora, an invasive plant that is unpalatable for grazing animals. As pasture lands have degraded, Cassia tora has spread throughout their fields out competing other plants. However, this noxious plant has potential as dry season forage when ensiled. The authors describe their analysis of the forage potential and their work with village women to develop ensilage techniques adapted to local conditions.
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    Establissement d'un comite communal de gestion des ressources naturelles (CGNRM) dans la commune de Madiama
    Kodio, Amadou; Moore, Keith M.; Cisse, C.; Traore, A.; Traoré, Boureima (Watkinsville, GA: SANREM CRSP, 2000)
    Une mission des chercheurs du CRRA/Mopti composé de: MM. Salmana CISSE, Sociologue; Aliou TRAORE, Agronome; Boureima TRAORE, Agro-pastoraliste; s'est rendue dans la Commune de Madiama du 04 au 15/10/99. Sur place elle a bénéficié des appuis suivants: MM. Soumaïla KONATE le Maire de la Commune de Madiama, Mouctar ASCOFARE, le Chef du casier de l'Office Riz Mopti (ORM), Ibrahim DIALLO et Belco KEITA agents de suivi ESPGRN, Mme Sadio CISSOKO, agent Projet Gestion des Ressources Naturelles (PGRN). Elle avait pour objectif la mise en place des comités villageois et d'un comité communal de gestion des ressources naturelles.
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    Natural resource management institution building in the decentralizing context of West Africa: the SANREM CRSP approach
    Moore, Keith M.; Bertelsen, Michael; Diarra, L.; Kodio, Amadou; Cissé, Salmana; Wyeth, P. (Blacksburg, Va.: SANREM CRSP WA, 1999)
    A far-reaching restructuring is beginning to take place in West Africa. There is general recognition in the region that central governments are poorly placed to make many decisions appropriate for local levels. Particularly in areas of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), local populations are being asked to take leadership in deciding appropriate land uses and ownership/usufruct of resources. The continuing and accelerating degradation of the natural resource base and changes in the socioeconomic environment of the region has added urgency to decentralization strategies. However, the current policy of decentralization across West Africa has become largely a matter of deconcentration. Although village-level (terroir) management has demonstrated significant success in community-based NRM, authority and resources resulting from decentralization laws do not reach this level. This paper describes the SANREM CRSP s attempt to organize and support a provincial-level NRM advisory board and orient technical interventions by providing training in Holistic Management.
  • Participatory landscape lifescape appraisal
    Earl, J.; Kodio, Amadou (Wallingford, Oxon; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI Publishing, 2005)
    In chapter 6, Earl and Kodio describe how the SANREM team introduced themselves to members of the Madiama community through the Participatory Landscape/Lifescape Appraisal (PLLA), an informal set of participatory survey methodologies that bring out not only important information about the natural resources of Madiama and the production systems shaping the population's livelihood, but also its primary concerns and priorities. In particular, they note the desire of the communities for improved soil fertility and pasturelands in order to increase productivity and incomes, and the underlying concern about conflict.
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    Resultats d' enquetes de base sur les conflits dans la commune Madiama
    Kodio, Amadou; Touré, M.; Traoré, Boureima; Cissé, Salmana; Moore, Keith M. (Watkinsville, Ga.: SANREM CRSP, 2000)
    Le projet SANREM est un projet chargé de recherche sur les systèmes d'exploitation
  • A simulation-based analysis of productivity and soil carbon in response to time-controlled rotational grazing in the West African Sahel region
    Badini, Oumar; Stöckle, C. O.; Jones, J. W.; Nelson, R.; Kodio, Amadou; Keita, Moussa (Elsevier Ltd., 2007)
    In the Sahel region of West Africa, the traditional organization of the population and the grazing land avoided overexploitation of pastures. Since independence in the 1960s, grazing lands have been opened to all without specific guidance, and the vulnerability of the pastures to degradation has increased. Rotational grazing is postulated as a possible solution to provide higher pasture productivity, higher animal loads per unit land, and perhaps improved soil carbon storage. The objective of this study was to conduct a simulation-based assessment of the impact of rotational grazing management on pasture biomass production, grazing efficiency, animal grazing requirement satisfaction, and soil carbon storage in the Madiama Commune, Mali. The results showed that grazing intensity is the primary factor influencing the productivity of annual pastures and their capacity to provide for animal grazing requirements. Rotating the animals in paddocks is a positive practice for pasture protection that showed advantage as the grazing pressure increased. Increasing the size of the reserve biomass not available for grazing, which triggers the decision of taking the animals off the field, provided better pasture protection but reduced animal grazing requirements satisfaction. In terms of soil carbon storage, all management scenarios led to reduction of soil carbon at the end of the 50-year simulation periods, ranging between 4% and 5% of the initial storage. The differences in reduction as a function of grazing intensity were of no practical significance in these soils with very low organic matter content, mostly resistant to decomposition.