VULNERABILITE DES EXPLOITATIONS AGRICOLES ET PRATIQUE DE LA REGENERATION NATURELLE ASSISTEE DANS LES COMMUNES DAGUIE, CHADAKORI ET AZARORI AU NIGER

Family farms (EAF) are livelihood production units for producers. In order to characterize FFAs, this study was conducted in the communes of Aguie, Chadakori and Azarori. Data collection involved fifteen (15) villages. A total of 549 farmers were surveyed using the purposive sampling method. The farmers surveyed had a family load of 10.50 5.99 and a number of agricultural assets of 5.45 3.64, and held an average area of 4.64 3.48 ha, i.e. a ratio of 0.38±0.47 ha/individual. Land is acquired in most cases by inheritance (84%) and purchase (31%), with inter-communal variability. The most common cropping system in the study area is association (60%). Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) has been practiced for over 30 years, and the species favoured by farmers vary from a commune to another. The practice of ANR faces constraints such as tree mutilations by transhumant herders, overexploitation by women and woodcutters, animal rambling and lack of mastery of silvicultural techniques. Hierarchical ascending classification (HAC) revealed three (3) types of farms according to their level of vulnerability. The first two axes provide more than 50% of the information relating to farm structure. The characteristics that differentiate the groups are income from the sale of wood and non-wood ANR products, livestock size, land area, family size and farm assets