[ Contrôle des ressources foncières: Modes d’accès et d’acquisition des terres agricoles des chefs de ménage féminin et masculin dans la région de Tahoua au Niger ]
Volume 41, Issue 2, December 2023, Pages 566–571
Moussa Dit Kalamou Mahamadou1, Soumana Boubacar2, Yamba Boubacar3, and Philippe Lebailly4
1 Département d’Agriculture en Zones Arides, Université d’Agadez, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Agadez, Niger
2 Faculté d’Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger
3 Département de Géographie, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger
4 Unité d’Economie et Développement Rural, Université de Liège, Gembloux Agro Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article deals with the control of land resources through ownership, access and acquisition of agricultural land in the Tahoua region of Niger. It explains how male and female heads of household access and acquire agricultural land. It also looks at the availability of cropland and the size of farmland in rural areas. An analysis of 84 sample heads of household, 42 of them male and 42 female, showed that inheritance remains the dominant mode of acquisition, with 52% of households acquiring land. This is followed by purchase coupled with inheritance (19%) and rental (7%). Female heads of household rent (12% renters vs. 2.40% renters of agricultural land) and lend (4.80% vs. 2.40% of men). The analysis shows that the farmland available to households consists of fields and gardens. Male and female households have plots of varying sizes, up to 15 hectares for fields and 3 hectares for gardens. On average, female households have only 2 hectares of land, compared with around 6 hectares for male households. A comparison of average field sizes, using ANOVA analysis with Tukey’s test, shows that the average areas owned by heads of households in different zones are not significantly different. The average is 4.39 ha in agricultural zones versus 3.07 ha in agro-pastoral zones.
Author Keywords: Agricultural land, land resources, head of household, Tahoua, Niger.
Volume 41, Issue 2, December 2023, Pages 566–571
Moussa Dit Kalamou Mahamadou1, Soumana Boubacar2, Yamba Boubacar3, and Philippe Lebailly4
1 Département d’Agriculture en Zones Arides, Université d’Agadez, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Agadez, Niger
2 Faculté d’Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger
3 Département de Géographie, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger
4 Unité d’Economie et Développement Rural, Université de Liège, Gembloux Agro Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article deals with the control of land resources through ownership, access and acquisition of agricultural land in the Tahoua region of Niger. It explains how male and female heads of household access and acquire agricultural land. It also looks at the availability of cropland and the size of farmland in rural areas. An analysis of 84 sample heads of household, 42 of them male and 42 female, showed that inheritance remains the dominant mode of acquisition, with 52% of households acquiring land. This is followed by purchase coupled with inheritance (19%) and rental (7%). Female heads of household rent (12% renters vs. 2.40% renters of agricultural land) and lend (4.80% vs. 2.40% of men). The analysis shows that the farmland available to households consists of fields and gardens. Male and female households have plots of varying sizes, up to 15 hectares for fields and 3 hectares for gardens. On average, female households have only 2 hectares of land, compared with around 6 hectares for male households. A comparison of average field sizes, using ANOVA analysis with Tukey’s test, shows that the average areas owned by heads of households in different zones are not significantly different. The average is 4.39 ha in agricultural zones versus 3.07 ha in agro-pastoral zones.
Author Keywords: Agricultural land, land resources, head of household, Tahoua, Niger.
Abstract: (french)
Ce présent article traite du contrôle des ressources foncières à travers la possession, le mode d’accès et d’acquisition des terres agricoles dans la région de Tahoua au Niger. Il explique la façon dont les chefs de ménage masculin et féminin accèdent et acquièrent la terre agricole. Il évoque aussi la disponibilité des terres de culture, les superficies des terres agricoles en milieu rural. L’analyse de 84 chefs de ménage échantillon dont 42 féminins et 42 masculins, a montré que l’héritage reste le mode d’acquisition dominant avec 52% des ménages. Il est suivi par l’achat couplé à l’héritage (19%) et de la location (7%). Les chef de ménage féminin louent (12% de locatrice contre 2,40% de locateur des terres agricoles) et prêtent (4,80% contre 2,40% des hommes). Il ressort de l’analyse que les terres agricoles dont disposent les ménages se composent de champs et de jardins. Il ressort que les ménages masculins et féminins ont des parcelles avec des superficies variables qui atteignent jusqu’à 15 hectares pour les champs et 3 hectares pour les jardins. Les ménages féminins ne disposent en moyenne que de 2 hectares de superficies contre environ 6 hectares pour les ménages masculins. La comparaison des moyennes des superficies des champs à l’aide d’une analyse ANOVA par le test de Tukey, montre que les moyennes des superficies détenues par les chefs de ménages en fonction des zones ne sont pas significativement différentes. Cette moyenne est de 4,39 ha en zone agricole contre 3,07 ha en zone agro pastorale.
Author Keywords: Terres agricoles, ressources foncières, chef de ménage, Tahoua, Niger.
How to Cite this Article
Moussa Dit Kalamou Mahamadou, Soumana Boubacar, Yamba Boubacar, and Philippe Lebailly, “Controlling land resources: Ways in which male and female heads of household access and acquire farmland in the Tahoua region in Niger,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 566–571, December 2023.
