Seminar : Cotton, Sugar, and Alfalfa: Changing Patterns of Agricultural Development in Sudan

Nom de carnet:

Researching Sudan

Date de publication:

Lundi 26 Mars 2018 - 15:00

Publié ici :

18 Mars 2018

Mis à jour le :

20 Mars 2018

Mots-clefs:

agriculture
Sudan
British textile industry
cultivation of sugarcane
sugar factories

Langue de publication:

Anglais

Zone géographique:

Afrique

CEDEJ Khartoum (seminar)

March 26- 3:00 pm

We are very pleased to announce CEDEJ Khartoum next Seminar, on 26 February, at 3:00pm at CEDEJ Khartoum Stefano Turrino 'Cotton, Sugar and Alfalfa : Changing Patterns of Agricultural Development in Sudan" CEDEJ Khartoum March 26 3:00 pm Stefano TURRINI (1989) is a Phd candidate in Geography at the University of Padova, Italy. Before the Phd, he graduated in ‘Local Development’. His research is part of a longstanding interest of the Department of Geography in Padova about agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas, especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa.

The importance of agriculture in Sudan is manifest. In this country, large-scale agricultural development dates back to the British colonial rule: the Gezira scheme started to produce cotton for the British textile industry in 1925, after the completion of the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile. The Sudanese state, which became independent in 1956, built the Roseires Dam in 1966 with the aim of expanding the scheme: the Managil Extension made the Gezira cover nearly one million hectares of land. Nowadays, it is one of the largest agricultural schemes under a single administration in the world. In the 1970s, Sudan improved its domestic food production and expanded and diversified the exports. The goal was to become the ‘breadbasket of the Arab world’, benefiting from the funding of the Arab oil-producing countries. The importance of food crops became more prominent than before in Sudan. Especially sugar played a key role in that period: the state approved the construction of many agricultural schemes for the cultivation of sugarcane and sugar factories. Nowadays alfalfa is taking a leading role in the development of a new frontier of agricultural development in Sudan benefiting of a vibrant business environment in the Country.
What are the similarities and the differences among the production systems which are required by these crops (cotton, sugar and alfalfa). What is their impact on the local territory? Stefano will try to answer these questions by taking advantage of his fieldwork and the existing literature.

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