Charrue et variétés de riz
The lake alaotra, one of the rice barn of madagascar, is a privileged place of intervention of the Malagasy State since more than one century, with a profusion of development projects since the years 1950. This area is also a land of migration with an uninterrupted flow of migrants coming from other...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/13761 |
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| Summary: | The lake alaotra, one of the rice barn of madagascar, is a privileged place of intervention of the Malagasy State since more than one century, with a profusion of development projects since the years 1950. This area is also a land of migration with an uninterrupted flow of migrants coming from other malagasy areas, attracted by the agricultural reputation of richness and available space to be colonized. Projects and migrants thus introduced new knowledge and know-how in this “permanent pioneer zone”. Some knowledge has been transformed into technical know-how according to mechanisms of selection and appropriation that are presented in this paper. The long term historical analysis clarifies the determining social dimension of this selection process. Indeed, the history of mechanization since nearly one century merges with that of the strategies of the dominant classes to consolidate their land rent and inegalitarian social production relations. The direct observation of farmers’ practices clarifies the phases of hybridization and appropriation which lead to the technical know-how controlled by local farmers. We chose to illustrate this double temporality trough two example of technical change with two emblematic innovations: the mechanization of traditional ploughing method (mud setting of rice fields) and the recent diffusion of “flexible” rice varieties in poor water control rice areas with serious climatic risks. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |