Resettlement at Manantali, Mali

Short-Term Success, Long-Term Problems

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ID20064138
AuthorsMichael M Horowitz, Dolores Koenig (0000-0001-9105-8440), Curt Grimm, Yacouba Konate
Year2019
Pages229-250
Publication date2019-04-08
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAnthropological Approaches to Resettlement (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429042218-11
OpenAlexW2953893618
ISBN9780429042218
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In late 1987 and early 1988, the Projet pour la Reinstallation des Populations de Manantali, in collaboration with the Malian administration and the national political party, established committees of health, sanitation, and water point maintenance in each new village. Prior to dam construction, the people of Manantali, the Malinke of the Bafing river lived in one of the most remote inhabited areas of Mali, with an overall population density of less than five per square kilometre. The historical limits of the political jurisdiction of the Bafing Malinke are reached approximately 25 kms north, that is downstream, of the dam site. The formal objective of the Manantali Resettlement Project, however, was uniquely the replacement of existing resources and replication of the previous standard of living. Peter Warshall says that major environmental damage has been done by the construction of the Manantali dam, including the destruction of an important Borassus palm forest in the reservoir area below the dam

Physics · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact

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