L’intervention en périphérie d’aire protégée visant l’amélioration de la conservation est une démarche largement partagée par les programmes de conservation depuis les années 1990. Il s’agit pourtant d’un postulat, que nous voulons réexaminer grâce à la situation du Parc du W (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Niger). Ce Parc est un complexe transfrontalier d’aires protégées, confronté à la pénétration illégale de troupeaux bovins transhumants conduits par des bergers peuls à la recherche de pâturage.Nous identifions d’abord les différents espaces où se jouent les relations entre le Parc et les pasteurs. Au-delà d’une périphérie proche, déjà prise en compte par le Parc, les espaces d’interaction dépassent, par des effets indirects, l’échelle de la mobilité des pasteurs. Ils englobent non seulement une aire d’attraction mais des espaces plus lointains, qui comprennent tous les pôles d’accueil pastoraux de la région. Nous analysons les facteurs de l’attractivité relative de ces espaces. Nous décrivons ensuite les formes de mobilité des éleveurs et leurs relations avec le Parc. A l’aide d’un modèle de décision, nous mettons en évidence les facteurs influençant les pratiques de mobilité dans leur diversité. Enfin, nous étudions les stratégies du Parc en périphérie pour examiner leur influence réelle ou potentielle sur les pasteurs. Elles souffrent du manque d’explicitation d’objectifs d’intervention basés sur l’analyse des relations entre Parc et périphérie. Au delà, nous montrons les limites de tout projet de conservation, cantonné à une ingénierie écologique, alors qu’est mise au jour la nécessité d’une ingénierie territoriale menée simultanément à de multiples échelles. / Protected area managers act on peripheral zones because they hope that it will improve conservation. This is a common behaviour of most development programs since 1990s. However, this relies on a postulate, which we try to examine thank to the case of the W Park (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Niger). This transborder park is a complex of protected area that faces with cattle herds, led by fulan herdsmen, that illegaly enters to find pasture. We identify spaces where the interactions between Parc and pastors take place. Beyond close periphery that was already took into into account by the Park, interaction spaces are even greater than the spaces where the pastors move because of indirect effects. They encompass an attraction area, and even further, all the surrounding main pastures area. We explore all factors that make the attractivity of spaces, including Park, compared to each other. Then, we describe pastors mobility types and how they affect their relationships to Park. A decision model helps us to show the factors influencing various mobility practices.Finally, we analyse Park strategies in the surrounding to evaluate its actual or potential influence on pastors. Its intervention lacks explicite goals and should be grounded on an analysis of relationships between Park and its surrounding. Deeper, we bring out that any conservation program is limited because it implements ecological engineering though a multiscale territorial engineering would be necessary.

Introduction In sub-Saharan Africa, rapid urbanisation and per capita consumption of animal source foods are expected to accelerate in the short-medium term and to increase the movements of live animals and animal products in the region. In Cameroon, where the livelihood of most of the rural population depends on the agricultural and livestock sector, a wide range of endemic transboundary infectious diseases (TADs) affect livestock production and trade, and have direct detrimental effects on animal, human and environmental health. Livestock mobility represents a central economic activity in the livestock value chain of the country as well as a central strategy of seasonal adaptation to the ecosystem. Livestock movements, however, are also a central driver of infectious diseases dynamics and contacts between livestock populations are major risk factors for disease introduction and circulation. In countries where financial and technical resources are constrained, such as Cameroon, strategic interventions aiming at the surveillance and control of multiple infectious diseases simultaneously are essential for optimising their cost-effectiveness. The overall aim of this study was to apply a methodological framework to contribute to the understanding of cattle movements in Cameroon and of their implications for disease circulation. Methods This project used a variety of epidemiological and statistical methods to characterise cattle movements in the country across different scales. The collection of primary data and information targeted both the formal cattle trade system, across the country, and the informal seasonal transhumance, across the main livestock production areas. Between September 2014 and May 2015 diverse strategies were applied for collecting empirical data and various data sources from multiple Regions of the country were combined. Cattle trade in Cameroon mainly occurs via multiple trading points owned and managed either by the veterinary authorities or the municipalities. A total of 62 livestock markets, and the relevant offices of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Products (MINEPIA), were targeted for collecting official data on cattle trade referring to a 12-month period ranging between September 2013 and August 2014. Additionally, a questionnaire-based survey with the various livestock markets stakeholders (herders, traders, butchers and veterinary officials) was carried out to collect a variety of information on the cattle market system. During this 9-month period of field work, data on cattle seasonal transhumance were simultaneously collected using a combination of GPS-tracking technology and questionnaire-based survey. Results Volumes of cattle trade, the type of traded animals and their commercial values varied over the year and across the Regions of the country included in this study. Nevertheless, the market supply of live cattle showed similar temporal trends over the year and across the Regions. Although for almost the entire study area the peak of traded animals in the market system was in December 2013, the trade volume was consistently higher during the rainy season (May to September). On the contrary, the reduction in the trade volume during the dry season was accompanied by an opposite trend in the cattle price, with their commercial value being higher during the dry season. Furthermore, a cattle price differential was highlighted between production Regions and high consumption Regions of the country. The highest volume of cattle trade was recorded in the Adamawa Region, which was the main source of cattle for the country while also receiving animals from neighbouring countries, such as Chad and Central African Republic. In contrast, major urban markets in the Littoral and Central Regions were the main receivers of cattle originating from almost all the other areas of the country. Interestingly, the North-West Region appeared to be more independent and isolated within the cattle trade network of Cameroon, particularly receiving few animals from other Regions. Importantly, there was little variation in the structural characteristics of the cattle trade network as well as in its properties across seasons, showing that, despite the seasonality in traded numbers, the network of cattle moving between markets in Cameroon is very stable. This consistent structure of the network over the year increases the robustness of strategic targeted interventions. We found that targeting the top 20% of the most connected markets would significantly reduce the network cohesiveness providing opportunities for strategic disease surveillance, communication and risk mitigation interventions. The centrality of the market within the trading network was also found to be positively associated with the price of live cattle, which tended to be heavily affected by phenotypic characteristics of the traded cattle. The seasonal cattle transhumance has been found as a common and widespread practice for herders attending the market system across whole the study area, highlighting the close relation between formal trading movements and informal pastoral movements across the country. Transhumant herds were observed to undertake migrations across multiple Regions for period exceeding 6 months and showing the potential for multiple types of interactions with domestic and wild animals. Discussion Multiple livestock infectious diseases were identified as being related to the cattle trade system. As neighbouring and non-neighbouring countries were found to be epidemiologically connected it is clear that national strategies for surveillance and control are likely to have limited effectiveness. Regional coordination for designing and implementing prevention and mitigation strategies against infectious diseases is essential to improve animal health also at national level. This study highlights the opportunity for strategic surveillance, control and communication interventions targeting key livestock markets and Regions of Cameroon. Live cattle price and centrality of markets, represented by their connectedness within the trading network, highlights the need to further investigate the links between economic factors and drivers of disease dynamics, such as livestock movements. The complexity of cattle movements in this context was further evidenced by the seasonal transhumance representing an established common mechanism for managing livestock, and closely interacting with the formal trading system as well as with other domestic and wild animal populations. Better data collection and analysis of livestock movements is required for improving the effectiveness of surveillance and control of infectious diseases. Although animal identification and registration systems would represent an ideal step for increasing traceability of cattle movements, enhancing animal health management and the overall competitiveness of the livestock industry, in the short-term a cost-effective intervention should aim at further developing the current data recording and management systems. Pastoralism, for long seen as an economic and environmental activity with little future, also needs to be acknowledged as a key component of the livestock production system in the country and to be considered accordingly in the management of infectious diseases.

Transhumant pastoralist are highly dependent on their landscape. Their economic, cultural and political systems are directly shaped by and shaping space. The nomadic nature of transhumant pastoralists have therefore created unique pastoral socio-spatial relations. Due to their close interaction with local landscapes, land use change can heavily impact their socio- spatial relations and their spatial justice. This study therefore studied the impacts of the case of the Great Green Wall, a large-scale land use change project focusing on afforestation and land management, on transhumance pastoralists from a spatial justice lens. The study focused on de jure spatial justice through policy documents and perceived spatial justice through interviews with stakeholders, specifically in terms of recognition, procedural rights, and distributional effects. This study found that (1) the project did not recognise the socio-spatial relations of pastoralists and instead, pastoralists were perceived as having a negative influence on the landscape, (2) de jure procedural justice was lacking, and stakeholders perceived the role of pastoralists in the governance and implementation of the project as limited, and (3) policy documents revealed a lacking focus on the distributive effects on pastoral socio-spatial relations, and the perceived spatial justice in terms of mobility and access to spatial resources was low. Overall, the levels of both de jure and perceived spatial justice were interpreted as low, meaning that the Great Green Wall has negative impacts on pastoral socio-spatial relations and pastoralists’ ability to influence these.

Dans un contexte d’aménagement de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal et de développement de l’agriculture irriguée, les populations d’éleveurs mettent en avant un ensemble de stratégies afin de renforcer leurs exploitations familiales. En effet, depuis les crises de sécheresse des années 1970-1980, la situation de l’élevage transhumant dans la vallée ne cesse de se détériorer et sa pérennisation remise en cause, en raison de la réduction des parcours pastoraux. L’objectif de ce travail est de faire comprendre les stratégies de survie mises en application par les éleveurs pour maintenir leurs exploitations viables. Un travail d’enquête chez 41 chefs d’exploitations a permis d’analyser les logiques de diversification agricole et de capitalisation foncière chez les Peul Walwalbé. Pour face faire à l’expansion des Périmètres Irrigués Villageois, les éleveurs ont choisi de renforcer leur pratique de l’agriculture irriguée afin de varier leurs sources de revenus et d’avoir un meilleur accès aux parcours post-culturaux. Dans les communautés rurales de Gamadji et de Guédé village situées dans la moyenne vallée, les éleveurs sont très présents dans les systèmes de production irriguée. Plusieurs modes de tenures foncières leur permettent, en plus des cultures céréalières de décrues ou pluviales, de développer les spéculations maraîchères (tomate et oignon) plus rentables. L’agriculture irriguée offre aussi aux agro-éleveurs un accès privilégié aux parcours post-culturaux. Leur présence dans les terroirs du Waalo est aussi un moyen de garantir leur droit foncier traditionnel sur ces terres. Ainsi la pratique de l’agriculture irriguée répond à des logiques financières et foncières. Alors que la pratique d’élevage ne permet pas aux éleveurs Peul d’avoir accès à la terre, l’agriculture irriguée apparaît comme une stratégie détournée de capitalisation foncière. La pratique conjointe de l’agriculture irriguée et de l’élevage transhumant a permis l’émergence d’un territoire agropastoral autour du département de Podor composé: de parcours de décrue, de parcours post-culturaux, de points d’abreuvement sur fleuve, de piste de transhumance…. Pour autant, les mouvements de transhumance restent la pratique centrale chez les éleveurs Peul de la moyenne vallée et les déplacements de longues durées encore de mises. / In the development of the Senegal River Valley and more precisely irrigated agriculture, pastoralist populations put forward a set of strategies to strengthen family farms. Since the 1970-1980 drought crises the situation of nomadic livestock as well as sustainability challenges in the valley continues to deteriorate, due to the reduction of rangeland. This work aims to understand the survival strategies adopted by farmers to keep their farms viable. Survey work in 41 farm managers was used to analyze the logic of agricultural diversification and land capitalization among Fulani Walwalbé. To face to the expansion of Irrigated Village Perimeters, ranchers have chosen to strengthen their practice of irrigated agriculture to vary their sources of income and have better access to postharvest lands. Farmers in rural communities of Gamadji and Guede towns located in the middle valley are very present in irrigated production systems. In addition to the rain fed cereal production, the several modes of land tenure permit them to speculate on profitable horticulture, such as vegetable crops (tomato and onion). Irrigated agriculture also provides breeders the privilege to access to post- harvest lands. Their presence in the Waalo land is also a means of ensuring their traditional land rights on these lands. Thus the practice of irrigated agriculture meets financial and property logic. While farming practice does not allow Fulani herders have access to land, irrigated agriculture appears as a strategy to move away from land capitalization. The joint practice of irrigated agriculture and livestock transhumance has encouraged the emergence of an agro-pastoral area around Podor made of: golf recession, post-crop lands, water points, transhumance pathways.... However, transhumance movements remain the central practice among Fulani herders of the middle valley and long displacement periods still possible.

Dans un contexte d'aménagement de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal et de développement de l'agriculture irriguée, les populations d'éleveurs mettent en avant un ensemble de stratégies afin de renforcer leurs exploitations familiales. En effet, depuis les crises de sécheresse des années 1970-1980, la situation de l'élevage transhumant dans la vallée ne cesse de se détériorer et sa pérennisation remise en cause, en raison de la réduction des parcours pastoraux. L'objectif de ce travail est de faire comprendre les stratégies de survie mises en application par les éleveurs pour maintenir leurs exploitations viables. Un travail d'enquête chez 41 chefs d'exploitations a permis d'analyser les logiques de diversification agricole et de capitalisation foncière chez les Peul Walwalbé. Pour face faire à l'expansion des Périmètres Irrigués Villageois, les éleveurs ont choisi de renforcer leur pratique de l'agriculture irriguée afin de varier leurs sources de revenus et d'avoir un meilleur accès aux parcours post-culturaux. Dans les communautés rurales de Gamadji et de Guédé village situées dans la moyenne vallée, les éleveurs sont très présents dans les systèmes de production irriguée. Plusieurs modes de tenures foncières leur permettent, en plus des cultures céréalières de décrues ou pluviales, de développer les spéculations maraîchères (tomate et oignon) plus rentables. L'agriculture irriguée offre aussi aux agro-éleveurs un accès privilégié aux parcours post-culturaux. Leur présence dans les terroirs du Waalo est aussi un moyen de garantir leur droit foncier traditionnel sur ces terres. Ainsi la pratique de l'agriculture irriguée répond à des logiques financières et foncières. Alors que la pratique d'élevage ne permet pas aux éleveurs Peul d'avoir accès à la terre, l'agriculture irriguée apparaît comme une stratégie détournée de capitalisation foncière. La pratique conjointe de l'agriculture irriguée et de l'élevage transhumant a permis l'émergence d'un territoire agropastoral autour du département de Podor composé: de parcours de décrue, de parcours post-culturaux, de points d'abreuvement sur fleuve, de piste de transhumance.... Pour autant, les mouvements de transhumance restent la pratique centrale chez les éleveurs Peul de la moyenne vallée et les déplacements de longues durées encore de mises.