Gabi (Niger)

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Rural municipality of Gabi
Gabi rural community (Niger)
Rural municipality of Gabi
Rural municipality of Gabi
Coordinates 13 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

region

Maradi
department Madarounfa
ISO 3166-2 NE-4
surface 790.5 km²
Residents 83,203 (2012)
density 105.3  Ew. / km²

Gabi is a rural municipality in the department Madarounfa in Niger .

geography

Gabi is located in the greater Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the south . The neighboring communities in Niger are Safo in the northwest and Madarounfa in the northeast. The municipality is divided into 78 administrative villages, 43 hamlets and a camp. The main town of the rural community is the administrative village of Gabi.

With the Goulbi de Gabi and the Goulbi de Madarounfa, two dry valleys cut through the municipality in a north-south direction. The average annual rainfall in Gabi is 601 millimeters, the number of rainy days in the year an average of 39 (measurement period 1995-2006). The Forêt classée de Gabi Nord with 560 hectares and the Forêt classée de Gabi Sud with 400 hectares are two protected forest areas in the municipal area of ​​Gabi. It was placed under protection in 1950. From 1972 to 2005, the proportion of more or less forested shrub savannah in the municipality fell by 20%, while the agricultural area grew by 9%.

history

Gabi was founded in the 19th century by residents of the city of Maradi . One of the first customs posts between the then French Niger and the then British Nigeria was set up in 1914 on behalf of the Governor General William Ponty in the Gabi village of Tchidafawa. The French colonial administration raised Gabi to a canton in 1944 . In 2002, as part of a state-wide administrative reform, the canton Gabi became the rural municipality of Gabi.

population

At the 2001 census, Gabi had 56,547 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 83,203. The population is predominantly home- speaking . There are Fulani and Tuareg minorities in the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

The valleys in Gabi are among the regions with the best soil fertility in Niger. In addition to agriculture, cross-border informal trade with Nigeria is an important source of income for the population. The three markets in the rural parish are located in the administrative villages of Gabi, Chirgué and Dan Taro.

Personalities

literature

  • Abdou Salissou: Impact de la boutique d'intrants dans la sécurisation des paysans de la commune rurale de Gabi . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM) ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Institut National de la Statistique website, accessed January 22, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stat-niger.org
  2. ^ Republic of Niger: Loi n ° 2002-014 du 11 JUIN 2002 portant création des communes et fixant le nom de leurs chefs-lieux .
  3. ↑ a b Mehdi Saqalli: Populations, Farming Systems and Social Transitions in Sahelian Niger. An agent-based modeling approach . Dissertation, Université catholique de Louvain 2008 ( online version ; PDF; 3.9 MB), pp. 46 and 49–50.
  4. ↑ Cellule Régionale de Coordination Preda: Conduite du protocole test régional de suivi of impacts environnementaux de l'exploitation des ressources forestières des plaines sableuses de Baban Rafi (Maradi - Niger). Final report ( memento of the original from April 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.4 MB). Published May 2009, accessed March 19, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cilss.bf
  5. ↑ Données disponibles pour chaque forêt classée ( Memento of July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Website of the Direction de l'Environnement, Ministère de l'Hydraulique, de l'Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification, accessed on 25 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Ali Mahamane, Saadou Mahamane, Bakasso Yacoubou, Abassa Issaka, Aboubacar Ichaou, Karim Saley: Analysis diachronique de l'occupation of terres et caractéristiques de la végétation dans la commune de Gabi (région de Maradi, Niger) . In: Sécheresse . Vol. 18, No. 4 , 2007, p. 296 ( jle.com [PDF; accessed April 21, 2014]).
  7. ↑ Emmanuel Grégoire: Les Alhazai de Maradi (Niger). Histoire d'un groupe de riches marchands sahéliens . ORSTORM, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-7099-0755-0 , p. 42.
  8. ↑ Hassane Gandah Nabi: Commerçants et entrepreneurs du Niger (1922-2006) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-336-29136-9 , pp. 43 .
  9. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 246.
  10. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 54.
  11. ↑ Presentation of the result globaux définitifs du Quatrième (4ème) Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat (RGP / H) de 2012. (PDF) Institut National de la Statistique, 2014, accessed on April 21, 2014 (French).
  12. ↑ Ali Mahamane, Saadou Mahamane, Bakasso Yacoubou, Abassa Issaka, Aboubacar Ichaou, Karim Saley: Analysis diachronique de l'occupation of terres et caractéristiques de la végétation dans la commune de Gabi (région de Maradi, Niger) . In: Sécheresse . Vol. 18, No. 4 , 2007, p. 302 ( jle.com [PDF; accessed April 21, 2014]).