IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/eurjdr/v24y2012i3p491-508.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Entre Crise et Rebond: Questions Autour de la Durabilité des Systèmes de Production Cotonniers au Mali

Author

Listed:
  • Isabelle Droy

    (UMI Résiliences (IRD – CIRES Abidjan), Centre IRD Ile de France, Bondy cedex, France.)

  • Jean-François Bélières

    (UMR ART-Dev (Acteurs, ressources et territoires dans le développement, CIRAD, Université de Montpellier 3, CNRS), Montpellier Cedex, France.)

  • Jean Etienne Bidou

    (UMR ADES (CNRS-Université de Bordeaux 3), Pessac cedex, France.)

Abstract

A production system based on cotton and cereals has been developed in Mali within a framework of an integrated upstream and downstream supply chain, securing the socio-economic environment. For three decades, the deep transformation of rural structures in the Malian cotton belt has been considered as a success in terms of development. However, when examined in the light of sustainable development, this model showed economic, social and ecological flaws, which have been exacerbated in recent years by the fall in global cotton prices. Nevertheless, current supply chain reforms are far from being flawless, and do not seem to provide alternatives in terms of sustainability.Le système de production articulé autour du coton et des céréales a été développé au Mali dans le cadre d’une filière intégrée, à l’amont et à l’aval, permettant de sécuriser l’environnement socio-économique. La profonde transformation du système agraire et des agricultures familiales a été considérée, sur trois décennies, comme une réussite en termes de développement. Examiné sous l’angle de la durabilité, ce modèle présentait cependant des faiblesses économiques, sociales et environnementales qui se sont exacerbées avec la baisse, depuis plusieurs années des prix de vente du coton-fibre sur le marché mondial. Maisles réformes actuelles de la filière et les alternatives ne sont pas elles-mêmes exemptes de contradictions entre les différentes dimensions de la durabilité.

Suggested Citation

  • Isabelle Droy & Jean-François Bélières & Jean Etienne Bidou, 2012. "Entre Crise et Rebond: Questions Autour de la Durabilité des Systèmes de Production Cotonniers au Mali," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 24(3), pages 491-508, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:24:y:2012:i:3:p:491-508
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/journal/v24/n3/pdf/ejdr201212a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/journal/v24/n3/full/ejdr201212a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vincent Geronimi & Claire Mainguy & Rémi Generoso & Ibrahima Cisse, 2013. "The Cotton Sector in Mali Trapped in Asset Poverty ? [Le secteur coton au Mali dans un piège de sous-accumulation ?]," Post-Print hal-01753874, HAL.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:24:y:2012:i:3:p:491-508. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.