LES CHANGEMENTS DANS L'ÉCONOMIE AGROPASTORALE : EXEMPLE D'UNE COMMUNAUTÉ AGROPASTORALE DE LA COMMUNE DE HADJ MECHRI ( WILAYA DE LAGHOUAT)

Abstract

The pastoral life mode, in the steppe areas, knows major changes: sedentarisation of the populations on grasslands, reduction of the size of the cattle with reduction of the breeding activity in household income, generalization of the complementation in the animal’s food, emergence of the non agricultural activities and guarding, the change of the law of use of the joint grasslands to the houses and reduction of the amplitude of animal’s moving. All these changes find their explanations in the manner with which the oil revenue was distributed, in the inconsistency of the policies followed in the steppe and finally in the new hegemonic vision concerning the sedentary life to which the young people and the women aspire to escape the difficulties of the way of transhumant life.