Fongang fouepe, Guillaume Hensel (2008) Les mutations du secteur agricole bamiléké (Cameroun) étudiées à travers ses acteurs : Une analyse à partir des localités de Fokoué et de Galim. PhD thesis Sociologie, AgroParistech 2008AGPT0062 p.416.
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Abstract
Changes in the Bamiléké agricultural sector (West Cameroon) have been very important since the mid
80s, marked by a fall in the prices of coffee, by then the main production of the Bamiléké region, and next by the
economic crises in Cameroon.
In this thesis, the concept of dispositive (Foucault, Moisdon, Maugeri, RIDT-INRA) is the main tool for
the analysis of this agricultural sector. A dispositive is a heterogeneous whole that is made up of human,
material, non human and immaterial components which are linked to one another and interact with one another
and with external factors of the dispositive and these processes leading to observable changes.
This research in the Bamiléké country enables us to distinguish and study four types of dispositive : that
of traders, NGOs, the state and the UCCAO (Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of West Cameroon).
Those four do not cooperate amongst themselves and are often structured into chains from the regional level to
the level of the farmers and are also dependent on actors at national and international levels. As such,
dispositives organized by agricultural input traders each include an international agrochemical firm, a
cameroonian importer, wholesalers, retailers and small local hawkers or retailers. The intermediation
dispositives, be it NGOs or by the state (through the services of the Ministry of Agriculture and national
projects/programmes), go from international donors to common initiative groups (CIG) and their members.
UCCAO used to collect/collects for export through its divisional cooperatives and local warehouses.
These dispositives are highly influenced by foreign donors (those of the state and those of NGOs), they
are also selection and constraint dispositives and offer funding, equipment and other types of support. These
concern only a limited number of farmers through their peasant organizations and the search for international
funding is a principal determinant of the strategies of the actors involved. The set ups promoted by input traders
are tools for market expansion and diffusion of technical advice to their customer farmers. They reach out to a
large number of farmers and have the particularity that they are very close to individual farmers. However, the
logic of profit and competition often influences the advice that is given.
| Item Type: | PhD Thesis (PhD) |
|---|---|
| PhD Supervisor: | Vincent, Jean |
| Date: | 21 October 2008 |
| Board of examiners: | Billaud, Jean Paul and Guillermou, Yves and Lemery, Bruno and Kamga, André and Pesche, Denis |
| Ecole Doctorale: | ED 435 AGRICULTURE, ALIMENTATION, BIOLOGIE, ENVIRONNEMENTS ET SANTE |
| Discipline: | Sociologie |
| Collection (Fonds): | AgroParistech |
| Institution: | AgroParistech |
| Subjects: | 9. Sciences of Economy, Management and Society 8. Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Crise, Dispositif, Agriculteur, Acteur, Secteur agricole, Services à l’agriculture, pays Bamiléké, Cameroun, Crisis, Dispositive, Farmer, Actor, Agricultural sector, Services to agriculture, Bamiléké country, Cameroon |
| ID Code: | 4919 |
| Deposited By: | Marina Briffaut |
| Deposited On: | 19 March 2009 |
Table of content
Résumé 6
Introduction Générale 8
Partie I Problématique et objet de recherche 12
Introduction de la partie I 13
Chapitre I Questionnement au centre de notre recherche 14
Chapitre II Un cadre d’analyse surtout basé sur la notion de dispositif 53
Chapitre III Les hautes terres bamiléké et les politiques agricoles
Camerounaises 80
Conclusion de la partie I 96
Partie II La recomposition du paysage d’acteurs du secteur
agricole bamiléké 97
Introduction de la partie II 98
Chapitre IV Jusqu’à la crise en 1985, un dispositif à trois acteurs 102
Chapitre V Nouveaux acteurs du secteur agricole bamiléké 119
et déclin de l’UCCAO
Chapitre VI Les dispositifs du secteur agricole bamiléké 158
Conclusion de la partie II 174
Partie III Les secteurs agricoles de Galim et de Fokoué :
contextes et acteurs 177
Introduction de la partie III 178
Chapitre VII Galim et Fokoué : la diversité des contextes agraires
locaux en pays Bamiléké 181
Chapitre VIII Les dispositifs agricoles de l’Etat à Fokoué et à Galim 226
Chapitre IX Les partenaires non-étatiques du secteur agricole
à Galim et à Fokoué 254
Chapitre X Les organisations d’agriculteurs et les attentes
des membres 279
Chapitre XI Les nouveaux leaders agricoles : des petits notables ruraux 298
Conclusion de la partie III 315
Conclusion générale 319
Bibliographie 330
Annexes 347
Liste des abréviations 404
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