Denis Gautier
Biographic Data
| ID | 132441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Gautier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Gautier |
| SIGNATURE | GAUTIER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7648-1881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Seasonal variability of women’s dietary diversity and food supply: A cohort study in rural Burkina Faso
Objective: To investigate the seasonal variations of women’s dietary diversity (WDD) (items consumed and food supply) and its linkages with agriculture, market and wild resources. Design: A cohort of 300 women was followed-up over a year to investigate WDD and food sources (production, purchase or foraging). Monthly qualitative 24 h recalls allowed computing WDD Scores from a standard 10-food groups (FG) classification (WDDS-10). Associations bet…
Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species
Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree ( Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social–ecological network analysis to understand the social–ecological interactions around néré. We documented the benefits néré provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range of actors. The flows of rights over the trees and benefits from them formed two hierarchical networks, or…
Shea ( Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.) – a peripheral empire commodity in French West Africa, 1894–1960
Burkinabé women have traded shea kernels and shea butter in periodic local markets, and on a regional scale with the densely-populated West African littoral, for centuries. This paper traces the origins of French colonial efforts to develop shea as a commodity of empire from the 1890s to independence in 1960. Colonial efforts to incorporate Upper Volta, a French colonial backwater, into the world economy was drawn out, heterogenous, and messy. Th…
Shea ( Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.) – the emergence of global production networks in Burkina Faso, 1960–2021 1
After Burkina Faso's independence, shea butter continues to be the key staple edible oil used by Burkinabe households although alternatives are now being placed in local markets. Shea ( Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.) is primarily managed as a food tree crop for African consumers but has been promoted as a wild and abundant crop which gives African women cash and empowerment. New international demand for edible Cocoa Butter Equivalents (CBEs) …
The contributions of wild tree resources to food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan African drylands: A review of the pathways and beneficiaries
Wild tree resources are known to play an important role in local stakeholders' livelihoods particularly in the food and nutrition security of people living in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature, this article examines the relative importance of the contributions of tree resources to food and nutrition security for rural households, while considering alternative causal pathways. The main conclusions of t…
Savannah gendered transition: How woodlands dynamics and changes in fuelwood delivery influence economic autonomy in Mali
Collective and individual interdisciplinarity in a sustainability research group: A social network analysis
Socio-economic differentiation and shea globalization in western Burkina Faso: Integrating Gender Politics and Agrarian Change
In this paper, we examine the way a local manifestation of the globalization process, the boom in the shea trade in western Burkina Faso, has fueled socio-economic differentiation in shea activity as part of a wider differentiation process. We refer to the gender politics and agrarian change literatures to inform both within- and across-household mechanisms of differentiation. We analyze both the mechanisms of change and the resulting inequalitie…
Fuelwood territorialities: Chantier d'Aménagement Forestier and the reproduction of “political forests” in Burkina Faso
This paper investigates the endurance of a national forest management programme in Burkina Faso called Chantier d'Aménagement Forestier (CAF), which focuses on the participatory sustainable production of fuelwood and is widely supported by international donors despite evidence of its shortcomings. We analyse the surprising persistence of the CAF model as a case of the territorialisation of state power through the reproduction of “political forest…
Territory matters: Exploring the functioning of an innovation system through the filter of local territorial practices - the example of the adoption of cashew trees in Burkina Faso
Renegotiating Access to Shea Trees in Burkina Faso: Challenging Power Relationships Associated with Demographic Shifts and Globalized Trade
This paper uses an original integrated theoretical framework to reveal the mechanisms behind socio-economic differentiation in the changing patterns of access to shea in western Burkina Faso, in the context of globalization of the shea nut trade and internal migrations from both the Mossi Plateau and the Sahelian zone. Based on more than 200 interviews, we unravel the complex dynamic mechanisms of changes in access to shea. We show that negotiati…
Impacts of drought and responses of rural populations in West Africa: A systematic review
In West Africa, climate variations and droughts have always affected livelihoods but have also triggered adaptation strategies. A better understanding of the impacts of drought and the responses of West African populations is indispensable for researchers and decision makers in the current and future context of multiple socioeconomic and environmental changes, including climate change. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on drought…
Herders' Territorialities and Social Differentiation in Western Burkina Faso
Some authors have linked the question of inequalities among pastoralists to rights of access to pastureland, but their analyses of pastoralists' rights of access generally focused on the privatisation of pastureland. We reveal that a wider range of power relations between farmers and herders, local and national institutions affects pastoralists' rights of access to pastureland. We demonstrate that socio-economic inequalities among the Fulbe peopl…
Global changes, livestock and vulnerability: The Social Construction of Markets as an Adaptive Strategy
Nowadays, livestock producers in Sahel have to deal not only with climate variability but also with changes in land use and policies that restrict access to pasture and increase their vulnerability. At the same time, the growth of urban livestock markets both nationwide and in neighbouring countries is creating opportunities for producers. However, few studies have examined the role of markets in the adaptive strategies of livestock producers in …
Coping with the Upheavals of Globalization in the Shea Value Chain: The Maintenance and Relevance of Upstream Shea Nut Supply Chain Organization in Western Burkina Faso
Market globalization has had only a weak impact on the regional shea nut supply chain in western Burkina Faso despite the boom in the shea trade and the arrival of leading foreign firms. We show that despite the fact that wholesalers have kept the shea chain locked in an oligarchic organization for the last 50 years, they still play an important role in the smooth functioning of the chain and in profit sharing down the chain to the rural poor. We…
Regulation by Territorialization: The Political Ecology of Conservation & Development Territories
IntroductionUnder the banners of environmental conservation, food security, and sustainable development, a diverse group of public and private actors is busily dividing the global South into conservation and development territories at a variety of scales. Multiple goals and processes drive these spatial strategies to reconfigure resource access, control, and management. The production of territory to regulate populations and resources has a long …
Territorialisation et pouvoir: La Political Ecology des territoires de conservation et de développement
Introduction Au nom de la conservation environnementale, de la securite alimentaire et du developpement durable, un groupe diversifie d’acteurs public et prives s’affairent a diviser les Suds en territoires de conservation et de developpement a differentes echelles. Plusieurs objectifs et processus conduisent ces strategies spatiales a reconfigurer l’acces aux ressources, leur controle et leur gestion. La production de territoire pour controler l…
Bibliographie
Cette bibliographie est proposée par les coordinateurs du dossier en complément de la liste des notices bibliographiques BGI.Adams W., Hutton J., 2007. People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation & Society, 5(2), p. 147-183 p.Adger W. N., Benjaminsen T. A., Brown K. et Svarstad H., 2001. Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses. Development and Change, 32 (4), p. 681-715.Agrawal…
Environnement, discours et pouvoir
Producteur laitier en Afrique de l'Ouest: Une modernité rêvée par les techniciens à l'épreuve du terrain
À l’instar des modèles de développement agricole en Occident, existe-t-il en Afrique de l’Ouest des producteurs laitiers « modernes » capables, selon la réthorique modernisante, d’affronter la concurrence du lait en poudre importé ? Pour répondre à cette question, il est nécessaire de savoir qui sont les producteurs laitiers ouest-africains. Notre analyse, basée sur trois typologies réalisées en périphérie des villes au Sénégal, en Mauritanie et …
Neoliberal Forest Reform in Mali: Adverse Effects of a World Bank “Success”
The forest reform in Mali that was mainly supported by the World Bank and implemented from 1996 followed a neoliberal format by establishing fuelwood markets in the peripheries of urban areas and enclosing the rights to harvest and to sell wood. These measures were seen as necessary to fight an alleged fuelwood crisis. The reform is considered by the World Bank to be a success. We argue, however, that it also had some adverse effects that were pr…
La Mobilité Commerciale Du Bétail Entre Le Sahel Et Les Pays Côtiers: L'avenir Du Convoyage À Pied
This paper debates the future of long-distance commercial trekking of cattle, from Sahelian countries to the terminal markets on the coast. In the general context of shrinking access to pastoral resources, and constraints affecting livestock mobility throughout West Africa, this time-honoured form of export is being called into question by national governments and local authorities. Road transport of live animals and the reintroduction of refrige…
Livestock’s Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: How to Measure It
Woodcutting and territorial claims in Mali
Commerce des produits d’élevage et territorialisation: Une mise en débat à partir de trois travaux de géographes en Afrique
Le projet de recherche Icare, financé par le Cirad, a pour ambition d’analyser les liens entre la dynamique des marchés mondiaux et régionaux des produits animaux et le développement dans les territoires d’élevage. Les deux terrains d’application de ce projet sont l’Afrique de l’Ouest, en particulier le Sénégal et le Mali, et la Corne de l’Afrique.Pendant longtemps, l’élevage de ces régions a eu la réputation d’être un élevage de prestige, voire …
Livestock’s Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: How to Measure It
Coping with the Upheavals of Globalization in the Shea Value Chain: The Maintenance and Relevance of Upstream Shea Nut Supply Chain Organization in Western Burkina Faso
Market globalization has had only a weak impact on the regional shea nut supply chain in western Burkina Faso despite the boom in the shea trade and the arrival of leading foreign firms. We show that despite the fact that wholesalers have kept the shea chain locked in an oligarchic organization for the last 50 years, they still play an important role in the smooth functioning of the chain and in profit sharing down the chain to the rural poor. We…
Regulation by Territorialization: The Political Ecology of Conservation & Development Territories
IntroductionUnder the banners of environmental conservation, food security, and sustainable development, a diverse group of public and private actors is busily dividing the global South into conservation and development territories at a variety of scales. Multiple goals and processes drive these spatial strategies to reconfigure resource access, control, and management. The production of territory to regulate populations and resources has a long …
Woodcutting and territorial claims in Mali
Socio-economic differentiation and shea globalization in western Burkina Faso: Integrating Gender Politics and Agrarian Change
In this paper, we examine the way a local manifestation of the globalization process, the boom in the shea trade in western Burkina Faso, has fueled socio-economic differentiation in shea activity as part of a wider differentiation process. We refer to the gender politics and agrarian change literatures to inform both within- and across-household mechanisms of differentiation. We analyze both the mechanisms of change and the resulting inequalitie…
The relationship between herders and trees in space and time in northern Cameroon
Extensive herding is an important activity in northern Cameroon, in terms of both the local social economy and local land management. However, this activity is strongly linked to the availability and accessibility of fodder resources. Due to territorial processes, such as land clearance and wood harvesting, this resource is receding and pasturelands are becoming fragmented. Herders are facing new challenges to secure their livelihoods, and, in th…
Global changes, livestock and vulnerability: The Social Construction of Markets as an Adaptive Strategy
Nowadays, livestock producers in Sahel have to deal not only with climate variability but also with changes in land use and policies that restrict access to pasture and increase their vulnerability. At the same time, the growth of urban livestock markets both nationwide and in neighbouring countries is creating opportunities for producers. However, few studies have examined the role of markets in the adaptive strategies of livestock producers in …
Renegotiating Access to Shea Trees in Burkina Faso: Challenging Power Relationships Associated with Demographic Shifts and Globalized Trade
This paper uses an original integrated theoretical framework to reveal the mechanisms behind socio-economic differentiation in the changing patterns of access to shea in western Burkina Faso, in the context of globalization of the shea nut trade and internal migrations from both the Mossi Plateau and the Sahelian zone. Based on more than 200 interviews, we unravel the complex dynamic mechanisms of changes in access to shea. We show that negotiati…
Herders' Territorialities and Social Differentiation in Western Burkina Faso
Some authors have linked the question of inequalities among pastoralists to rights of access to pastureland, but their analyses of pastoralists' rights of access generally focused on the privatisation of pastureland. We reveal that a wider range of power relations between farmers and herders, local and national institutions affects pastoralists' rights of access to pastureland. We demonstrate that socio-economic inequalities among the Fulbe peopl…
Neoliberal Forest Reform in Mali: Adverse Effects of a World Bank “Success”
The forest reform in Mali that was mainly supported by the World Bank and implemented from 1996 followed a neoliberal format by establishing fuelwood markets in the peripheries of urban areas and enclosing the rights to harvest and to sell wood. These measures were seen as necessary to fight an alleged fuelwood crisis. The reform is considered by the World Bank to be a success. We argue, however, that it also had some adverse effects that were pr…
La Mobilité Commerciale Du Bétail Entre Le Sahel Et Les Pays Côtiers: L'avenir Du Convoyage À Pied
This paper debates the future of long-distance commercial trekking of cattle, from Sahelian countries to the terminal markets on the coast. In the general context of shrinking access to pastoral resources, and constraints affecting livestock mobility throughout West Africa, this time-honoured form of export is being called into question by national governments and local authorities. Road transport of live animals and the reintroduction of refrige…
Ficus (Moraceae) as part of Agrarian systems in the bamileke region (Cameroon)
Territorialisation et pouvoir: La Political Ecology des territoires de conservation et de développement
Introduction Au nom de la conservation environnementale, de la securite alimentaire et du developpement durable, un groupe diversifie d’acteurs public et prives s’affairent a diviser les Suds en territoires de conservation et de developpement a differentes echelles. Plusieurs objectifs et processus conduisent ces strategies spatiales a reconfigurer l’acces aux ressources, leur controle et leur gestion. La production de territoire pour controler l…
Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species
Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree ( Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied social–ecological network analysis to understand the social–ecological interactions around néré. We documented the benefits néré provides and the multiple social interactions it creates amongst a large range of actors. The flows of rights over the trees and benefits from them formed two hierarchical networks, or…
Collective and individual interdisciplinarity in a sustainability research group: A social network analysis
Territory matters: Exploring the functioning of an innovation system through the filter of local territorial practices - the example of the adoption of cashew trees in Burkina Faso
Fondements naturels et sociaux d’un bocage tropical: L’exemple Bamiléké
En pays Bamiléké sur les hauts-plateaux de l'ouest Cameroun, les monts Bamboutos présentent trois formations bocagères particulières dans un transect altitudinal. A partir de considérations botaniques, cette étude s'intéresse successivement à la structure des haies, à l'organisation du réseau des haies et à la dynamique des formations bocagères. Ces trois modalités d'un paysage de bocage, superposées sur un même versant, présentent des dynamiques…
Ficus (Moraceae) as part of Agrarian systems in the bamileke region (Cameroon)
The relationship between herders and trees in space and time in northern Cameroon
Extensive herding is an important activity in northern Cameroon, in terms of both the local social economy and local land management. However, this activity is strongly linked to the availability and accessibility of fodder resources. Due to territorial processes, such as land clearance and wood harvesting, this resource is receding and pasturelands are becoming fragmented. Herders are facing new challenges to secure their livelihoods, and, in th…
Commerce des produits d’élevage et territorialisation: Une mise en débat à partir de trois travaux de géographes en Afrique
Le projet de recherche Icare, financé par le Cirad, a pour ambition d’analyser les liens entre la dynamique des marchés mondiaux et régionaux des produits animaux et le développement dans les territoires d’élevage. Les deux terrains d’application de ce projet sont l’Afrique de l’Ouest, en particulier le Sénégal et le Mali, et la Corne de l’Afrique.Pendant longtemps, l’élevage de ces régions a eu la réputation d’être un élevage de prestige, voire …
Woodcutting and territorial claims in Mali
Livestock’s Contribution to Poverty Alleviation: How to Measure It
Environnement, discours et pouvoir
Producteur laitier en Afrique de l'Ouest: Une modernité rêvée par les techniciens à l'épreuve du terrain
À l’instar des modèles de développement agricole en Occident, existe-t-il en Afrique de l’Ouest des producteurs laitiers « modernes » capables, selon la réthorique modernisante, d’affronter la concurrence du lait en poudre importé ? Pour répondre à cette question, il est nécessaire de savoir qui sont les producteurs laitiers ouest-africains. Notre analyse, basée sur trois typologies réalisées en périphérie des villes au Sénégal, en Mauritanie et …
Neoliberal Forest Reform in Mali: Adverse Effects of a World Bank “Success”
The forest reform in Mali that was mainly supported by the World Bank and implemented from 1996 followed a neoliberal format by establishing fuelwood markets in the peripheries of urban areas and enclosing the rights to harvest and to sell wood. These measures were seen as necessary to fight an alleged fuelwood crisis. The reform is considered by the World Bank to be a success. We argue, however, that it also had some adverse effects that were pr…
La Mobilité Commerciale Du Bétail Entre Le Sahel Et Les Pays Côtiers: L'avenir Du Convoyage À Pied
This paper debates the future of long-distance commercial trekking of cattle, from Sahelian countries to the terminal markets on the coast. In the general context of shrinking access to pastoral resources, and constraints affecting livestock mobility throughout West Africa, this time-honoured form of export is being called into question by national governments and local authorities. Road transport of live animals and the reintroduction of refrige…
Coping with the Upheavals of Globalization in the Shea Value Chain: The Maintenance and Relevance of Upstream Shea Nut Supply Chain Organization in Western Burkina Faso
Market globalization has had only a weak impact on the regional shea nut supply chain in western Burkina Faso despite the boom in the shea trade and the arrival of leading foreign firms. We show that despite the fact that wholesalers have kept the shea chain locked in an oligarchic organization for the last 50 years, they still play an important role in the smooth functioning of the chain and in profit sharing down the chain to the rural poor. We…
Regulation by Territorialization: The Political Ecology of Conservation & Development Territories
IntroductionUnder the banners of environmental conservation, food security, and sustainable development, a diverse group of public and private actors is busily dividing the global South into conservation and development territories at a variety of scales. Multiple goals and processes drive these spatial strategies to reconfigure resource access, control, and management. The production of territory to regulate populations and resources has a long …
Territorialisation et pouvoir: La Political Ecology des territoires de conservation et de développement
Introduction Au nom de la conservation environnementale, de la securite alimentaire et du developpement durable, un groupe diversifie d’acteurs public et prives s’affairent a diviser les Suds en territoires de conservation et de developpement a differentes echelles. Plusieurs objectifs et processus conduisent ces strategies spatiales a reconfigurer l’acces aux ressources, leur controle et leur gestion. La production de territoire pour controler l…
Bibliographie
Cette bibliographie est proposée par les coordinateurs du dossier en complément de la liste des notices bibliographiques BGI.Adams W., Hutton J., 2007. People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation & Society, 5(2), p. 147-183 p.Adger W. N., Benjaminsen T. A., Brown K. et Svarstad H., 2001. Advancing a political ecology of global environmental discourses. Development and Change, 32 (4), p. 681-715.Agrawal…
Impacts of drought and responses of rural populations in West Africa: A systematic review
In West Africa, climate variations and droughts have always affected livelihoods but have also triggered adaptation strategies. A better understanding of the impacts of drought and the responses of West African populations is indispensable for researchers and decision makers in the current and future context of multiple socioeconomic and environmental changes, including climate change. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on drought…
Herders' Territorialities and Social Differentiation in Western Burkina Faso
Some authors have linked the question of inequalities among pastoralists to rights of access to pastureland, but their analyses of pastoralists' rights of access generally focused on the privatisation of pastureland. We reveal that a wider range of power relations between farmers and herders, local and national institutions affects pastoralists' rights of access to pastureland. We demonstrate that socio-economic inequalities among the Fulbe peopl…
Global changes, livestock and vulnerability: The Social Construction of Markets as an Adaptive Strategy
Nowadays, livestock producers in Sahel have to deal not only with climate variability but also with changes in land use and policies that restrict access to pasture and increase their vulnerability. At the same time, the growth of urban livestock markets both nationwide and in neighbouring countries is creating opportunities for producers. However, few studies have examined the role of markets in the adaptive strategies of livestock producers in …
Renegotiating Access to Shea Trees in Burkina Faso: Challenging Power Relationships Associated with Demographic Shifts and Globalized Trade
This paper uses an original integrated theoretical framework to reveal the mechanisms behind socio-economic differentiation in the changing patterns of access to shea in western Burkina Faso, in the context of globalization of the shea nut trade and internal migrations from both the Mossi Plateau and the Sahelian zone. Based on more than 200 interviews, we unravel the complex dynamic mechanisms of changes in access to shea. We show that negotiati…
Fuelwood territorialities: Chantier d'Aménagement Forestier and the reproduction of “political forests” in Burkina Faso
This paper investigates the endurance of a national forest management programme in Burkina Faso called Chantier d'Aménagement Forestier (CAF), which focuses on the participatory sustainable production of fuelwood and is widely supported by international donors despite evidence of its shortcomings. We analyse the surprising persistence of the CAF model as a case of the territorialisation of state power through the reproduction of “political forest…
Territory matters: Exploring the functioning of an innovation system through the filter of local territorial practices - the example of the adoption of cashew trees in Burkina Faso
Socio-economic differentiation and shea globalization in western Burkina Faso: Integrating Gender Politics and Agrarian Change
In this paper, we examine the way a local manifestation of the globalization process, the boom in the shea trade in western Burkina Faso, has fueled socio-economic differentiation in shea activity as part of a wider differentiation process. We refer to the gender politics and agrarian change literatures to inform both within- and across-household mechanisms of differentiation. We analyze both the mechanisms of change and the resulting inequalitie…
The contributions of wild tree resources to food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan African drylands: A review of the pathways and beneficiaries
Wild tree resources are known to play an important role in local stakeholders' livelihoods particularly in the food and nutrition security of people living in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature, this article examines the relative importance of the contributions of tree resources to food and nutrition security for rural households, while considering alternative causal pathways. The main conclusions of t…
Savannah gendered transition: How woodlands dynamics and changes in fuelwood delivery influence economic autonomy in Mali
Collective and individual interdisciplinarity in a sustainability research group: A social network analysis
Shea ( Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.) – a peripheral empire commodity in French West Africa, 1894–1960
Burkinabé women have traded shea kernels and shea butter in periodic local markets, and on a regional scale with the densely-populated West African littoral, for centuries. This paper traces the origins of French colonial efforts to develop shea as a commodity of empire from the 1890s to independence in 1960. Colonial efforts to incorporate Upper Volta, a French colonial backwater, into the world economy was drawn out, heterogenous, and messy. Th…
Geography (20 works) · Agriculture and Rural Development Research (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works)