Training module on conflict-sensitive journalism related to mobile livestock production systems in West Africa and the Sahel

Mobile livestock production systems have been facing a number of challenges over the past twenty years, including farmer-pastoralist conflicts and civil insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel. In recent decades, conflicts initially sparked by competition over natural resources have gradually evolved into struggles for control of land between socio-cultural groups, and politico-religious demands that have intensified the displacement of both animals and people. At the same time, we note that the media - print, radio and audiovisual - most often focus on pastoral issues, such as the management of land conflicts between farmers and herders, and access to transhumance corridors. Pastoralists and pastoral households are therefore most often described in terms of this general conception of pastoral farming as vulnerable to climatic, environmental, health and terrorist risks, and as inefficient in the context of agricultural modernisation policies. All in all, these observations lead us to conclude that pastoral livestock farming is a production system that is not only under-represented, but also little-known by the media in West Africa and the Sahel, who more often than not are content to relay current representations and official events about it.

CILSS    

CEDEAO    

PEPISAO    

Dr BIO GOURA Soulé    

ASSOUMANE Moussa    

OROU DJEGA Imorou    

ANDEBI Baguiri    

NALEMANE Gomis    

SAMBA DIALLO Diby    

Dr SANOU Bakary    

AFD    

PEPISAO    

Journalism    

Mobile livestock    

Production systems    

West Africa    

Sahel    

Farming    

Farming systems    

fre Pastoralisme et transhumance    

Juin 2022

Module de formation

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Anglais

Afrique de l'ouest    

BIBLIOTHEQUE    

Bibliothèque