The Network Approach; the production and consumption chain in Senegal

Abdou Salam Fall, Ousmane Guèye and El Hadji Malick Ba

In: UA Magazine 5 - Methodologies for UA research, policy development, planning and implementation

This article presents a social analysis of the co-ordination of the production-consumption chain in agriculture. The inter-relations in two production-consumption chains are compared; cereals and dairy in Senegal. Social network analysis is a valuable means of exploring the dynamics of urban agriculture and how economic reasoning is embedded in these social networks.