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margin of the peasants. The model is designed for decisionmaking
at the farm-level by development planners and agronomists.
The document contains: detailed descriptions of the collection
and preparation of the data; a discussion of how the model was
constructed and the matrix was built; and the solutions and
computer printouts. The solutions of the linear program are
then compared with those of a model based on budgeting. Both
models converge, and allocate about 60% of the cultivated area
to cash crops and 40% to food crops, although'there is a divergence
on the recommended crop rotations. Also economic results
of the two models differ; this difference is attributed to
variations in the ways of computing depreciation and labor constraints.
A summary version oc this paper, titled: Les Mfthodes
d'analyse Math6matique de Syst'emes et Leur Application au Nivwau
des Exploitations Traditionnelles-Cas du "ModRe 4S" S~n~g, was
presented by M. Fall to the CILSS/Club du Sahel colloquium
"Integrated Rural Development Projects and Improvement of
Agricultural Production Systems," held in Bamako in February
1978.
63. Schumacher, Edward J. Politics, Bureaucracy and Rural Development in
Senegal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975, 279 p.;
bibl.
An analysis of institutional change and policy evolution
during Senegal's first decade of independence. Evaluates the
character of authority exercised by the national leadership,
especially resource constraints and organizational weaknesses
within the party and the state bureaucracy, and their influence
on the leadership's approach to rural development. The author
argues that the approach to rural development has evolved in a
subtle but significant manner. Chapters on cooperatives and
groundnut marketing and agricultural credit, productivity and
development policies, are included.
64. Sene, I. Farmers Behavior Towards Technology: The Senegalese Case.
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, Department of
Agricultural Economics, 1978, 42 p. (Master's Thesis).
An analysis of intermediate technology which is seen as a
necessary transitory stage from "traditional" technology to
"modern" technology. The author describes the different level
of agricultural intensification defined by present agricultural
research and extension as well as the social organization of the
rural family. He then analyzes various impediments to the
adoption of the new "intermediate technology" including equity,
methodological, political and psychological concerns. Arguing
that the lack of technical structures is a constraint on the
adoption of intermediate technology, the author concludes there
is a need for a radical change toward the introduction of new
technology.