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Advancing Agriculture in Senegal: Trends and Challenges

This workshop presentation covers the structural characteristics and evolution of agricultural policies in Senegal, including key data on the agricultural sector, policy shifts from 1960 to 2005, local actors' roles, and challenges like modernization, globalization, and land management. Learn about the trajectory of Senegal's agricultural sector from Dr. Mbène Dièye Faye.

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Advancing Agriculture in Senegal: Trends and Challenges

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  1. RuralStruc Program Launching Workshop Agricultural trajectory of Senegal: Generalities Dr Mbène Dièye FAYE Mbour 11-13 April 2006

  2. Presentation Plan • Structural characteristics of the Senegalese agricultural sector • Evolution of the agricultural policy • What we know • Challenges

  3. Structural characteristics of the Senegalese agricultural sector • Portion of the GDP: 10% • Average size of exploitations: 3.29 ha • Average size of households: 10 people • Form of land acquisition: inheritance 85% • Average annual income by exploitation: $709 or 584€ (agricultural income, transfers, small communities)

  4. Main cultures

  5. Evolution agricultural population

  6. Exports of agricultural products

  7. Agricultural Imports

  8. Evolution of agricultural policies:Four main periods • 1960-80: Agricultural Program • 1981-84: Program of Structural Adjustment • 1985-1994: New Agricultural Policy • 1995-2005: Programs and Letters of the Declaration of Agricultural Policy

  9. Evolution of agricultural policies:Decentralization and local actors • Four Communes from the colonial period • Creation of the rural community in 1972 • Creation of a new entity in 1996: the region • Frame of conception of the regional development, the rural community being the frame of execution • This creation is accompanied by a transfer of nine areas of competency distributed among the regions, the communes and the rural communities

  10. Evolution of agricultural policies:Chronicle of a progressive liberalization • Industrial tomato commodity chain: 1988-1995 • Cereal commodity chain: 1995-1996 • Cotton commodity chain: 1998-2004 • Peanut commodity chain: 1995-2005

  11. What we know • Enhanced participation of elected local officials in the management of the affairs of their lands • Rural communities are given the moral personality and financial autonomy • Organizations of producers raise as partners of the State

  12. What we know • The reshaping of the agricultural services • The professionalization of the commodity chains • GIE, Associations, Unions • The role of the CNCR (National Council on Rural Cooperation and Consultation). • Emergence of inter-profession • CIRIZ and CICL for cereals • CNCFTI for the industrial tomato • CNIA for peanuts • FAFA and UNAFA for the avian commodity chain

  13. Challenges • Modernization of agriculture • Dilemma agro business/family agriculture • Globalization and competitiveness • Management of the peanut commodity chain • Pastoral and agricultural land • Poultry imports/development of the commodity chain • Implementation of LOASP (Law of Agricultural Orientation)

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