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C. Cooperatives
212. Belloncle, Guy. "L' experience s6negalaise." In: Cooperatives et
Developpement en Afrique Noire Sah~lienne, pp."21-187. Sherbrooke,
Quebec: Universite de Sherbrooke, Centre d'Etudes en Economie
Cooperative, 1978.
A brief history of the plans to open a College Cooperative
in Senegal, initiated by Mamadou Dia and eventually opened as
the College de Cooperation within the National School for Applied
Economics in 1964. The balance of the paper includes ten reproduced
texts, mostly from French and Senegalese government
sources in the early 1960's, which cover topics such as cooperatives
and economic development cooperatives as instruments of
development, training of cooperative agents, and agricultural
credit. The paper is intended to shed light on early postindependence
policy on cooperatives.
213. Gagnon, G.; Savaria, J. "Le S6negal." In: Cooperative ou Autogestion:
S6negal, Cuba, Tunisia, by G. Gagnon, pp. 17-149. Montrbal: Les
Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1976.
Mechanisms for involving the population in the development
process (unionization, cooperatives and "animation rurale") are
examined. In a section entitled "Cooperatives et animation
rurale: participation ou exploitation?", the authors conclude that
the cooperative system has essentially served to integrate the
rural population into the capitalist production system.
211. Storm, R. "Government cooperative groundnut marketing in Senegal and
Gambia," Journal of Rural Cooperation (Tel-Aviv) 5(l) 1977,
pp. 29-42.
The author contends that the use of the word "cooperative"
to describe the government's groundnut marketing system hardly
seems justified because the government extracted revenues from
the peasantry through the "cooperative" organization. But in
the case of Senegal, the withdrawals have been primarily to meet
urban needs.