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milling, and distribution of rice . e analyzed. The author
estimates and compares some indicators of social and private
profitability for a set of activities and for different
locations in the country. It is found that none of the
domestic production techniques is competitive with imports
on the Dakar market; the most efficient import-substitution
should favor production in the Casamance. The costs of providing
food security are reflected in negative social profit
rates and high per unit output, because of extensive subsidies
on capital and maintenance costs of irrigation networks.
The author concludes that in most cases, the social
costs exceed the benefits of rice cultivation in Senegal.
141. Waldstein, Abraham S. Government Sponsored Agricultural Intensification
Schemes in the Sahel: Development for Whom? Abidjan:
USAID/REDSO West Africa, August 1978, 114 p.; bibl.
Paper examines distribution of benefits from large scale
agricultural intensification projects, maintaining that the
chief beneficiaries have been national or international management
institutions. Based on the author's field experience in
Senegal the paper concentrates on irrigation schemes in the
Valley and the operations of SAED. Presents an historical
overview of the Richard Toll schemes, which collapsed in 1971,
as a forerunner to SAED activity in the Valley. Examines
intensification schemes from the point of view of the farmers
and herders who work them, or are displaced by them.
142. Waldstein, Abraham S. "Peasantization" of Nomads and "Nomadization"
of Peasants; Responses to State Intervention in an Irrigated
Agricultural Development Scheme in the Senegal River Delta.
Durham, New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire, May 1978.
Paper presented at a "Symposium on Regional Development
in the African Sahel", held at the University of New Hampshire
in May 1978. Paper examines the role of irrigation projects
in the strategies of pastoralists in the Senegal River Delta.
Discusses the limited benefits received by the tenant from
participating in SAED's Delta perimeter. Demonstrates how different
sedentary cultivators and pastoralists adjusted their
subsistence strategies to maintain their cultivation rights on
the perimeters and compensate for the deficiencies of participation.
143. Weiler, E.M. Social Cost-benefit Analysis of the Nianga Pilot Project,
Senegal. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University, Department of
Agricultural Economics, May 1979, 291 p.; tables; bibl. (Master's
Thesis).
Ex-post analysis of the Nianga project, which has been in
operation since 1975. A social cost-benefit analysis from an
ex-post perspective was used to derive three measures of project