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Whose agroforestry product it is? Crossing kinship and tenure rights theories to analyze agroforestry systems

Sibelet N.. 2007. In : Making ecosystem services count for farmers, consumers and the environment. Oral and posters presentations. Turrialba : CATIE, 9 p.. International Symposium on Multi-Strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops. 2, 2007-09-17/2007-09-21, Turrialba (Costa Rica).

Social and economical importance of the products derived from the perennial crop Agroforestry systems is well recognized by researchers, chains supply operators and policy makers. Although there have been many studies on economical values on tree products very few of them have analyzed the access rights of them. From research of twenty years, in particular in six countries: the Comoros, Cameroon, Madagascar, Benin, Ivory Coast and Indonesia, this article analyze the importance of the link between the status of the products, the management of the trees and the products and their values: agronomic, economic and symbolic systems. One of the major advantages of the Agroforestry systems is their multi-functionality. It is interesting to use the multiple potential of the trees which provide, at the same time, products and services. It increases the chance to stimulate the development of sustainable systems combining environmental services and economic values. For the multipurpose character of the trees induces the multi-appropriation of the products, we propose to use tools of socio-anthropology to analyze the rights of access to the Agroforestry products. Firstly, we will examine the characteristics and functions of the perennial crops and their products. Beyond the functions of productions, the trees are a physical support of the economic and social accumulation of the households because of their perennial character. This specificity makes it possible to the actors to satisfy, via the trees, their patrimonial needs of any type: inheritance of treasury, inheritance of precaution, inheritance dedicated to events, inheritance related to the cycle of life and inheritance of transmission. Secondly, we will identify the main objectives of the rural families by using the contributions of the agrarian systemic analysis in particular with the use of the concept "family-farming system". The use of the anthropological concept and methods of kinship makes it possible to identify th

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