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The establishment of a colonial capitalist system in Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century resulted in unprecedented changes in socio-ecological systems that have intensified in Senegal since the mid-twentieth century. In the agro-silvopastoral center-east region of Senegal, a diachronic approach combining spatial analysis, biogeography, and socio-economic surveys has highlighted important ruptures in socio-economic and ecological systems since the 1950s. Terrestrial ecosystems have become imbalanced owing to radical changes in perceptions and valuations of the environment as market-oriented agricultural systems of land exploitation replaced traditional subsistence, (extensive) natural resource management practices. These changes are directly associated with the integration of Senegal’s people and ecosystems into the global systems in the late twentieth century.
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Agro-sylvopastoralism is a production system that combines agricultural, forestry, and pastoral forms of production. It does not consist of a juxtaposition of three production systems, but is instead based on maximizing the synergies between these various production regimes to take advantage of the complementarity between trees, crops, and animals (Translation Bureau 2009). In this article, the term “agro-silvopastoral” is associated with an area and not a unit of socio-economic production (household or concession). Thus, agro- sylvopastoralism refers to the synergies of agriculture, forestry, and pastoralism within a geographical area. An “agro-silvopastoral region” is an area where agriculture, forestry, and pastoralism are the main livelihood.
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Diouf, A., Hatvany, M.G. (2015). Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics in Senegal’s Agro-silvopastoral Center-East Region in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. In: Werlen, B. (eds) Global Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16477-9_8
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