A la recherche du développement local dans la vallée du Sénégal. Réflexions sur le Ngalenka et la genèse d'un territoire

Despite official declarations, the growth of local development has many difficulties to be assertive in the Senegal Valley (dirigisme, low participation, dispersed associations base). However, the territory is now, in places, somehow reapproriating the "territorial mass" produced by the hydraulic territorialisation. The case of Sector Ngalenka, near Podor, is an example; a new territorial system is coming up, of which three patterns are outlined: economic dissipation, the dependence from external conditions, the links between different elements, within and outside the project.