Safo (Niger)

Rural Municipality of Safo
Rural Municipality of Safo
Coordinates	13 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 7'  E
Basic data
Country	Niger
region	Maradi
department	Madarounfa
Residents	76,454 (2012)

Safo is a rural community in the Madarounfa department in Niger .

geography

Safo is located in the greater Sudan landscape and borders the neighboring state of Nigeria in the southwest . The neighboring communities in Niger are Tibiri in the northwest, Sarkin Yamma in the north, Maradi in the northeast, Djiratawa in the east, Madarounfa in the southeast and Gabi in the south. There are 59 villages, ten hamlets and nine camps in the municipality. The main town of the rural community is the village of Safo. Other larger villages are Riadi and Soumarana .

The dry valley Goulbin Maradi runs through the municipality . The average annual rainfall in Safo is 507 millimeters, the number of rainy days in the year on average 35 (measurement period 1995-2006). In the municipality is the northern part of the 36,000 hectare nature reserve Forêt classée de Baban Rafi .

history

The French colonial administration established a canton in Safo in 1944 . In 2002, as part of a nationwide administrative reform, the canton Safo became the rural municipality of Safo. The neighboring municipality of Djiratawa raised territorial claims to the village of Riadi from 2008.

population

At the 2001 census, Safo had 53,631 inhabitants. At the 2012 census, the population was 76,454. Safo is a traditional center of the Azna .

Economy and Infrastructure

The community is located in the narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, which extends from Tounouga in the west to Malawa in the east and is used in irrigation farming for cash crops .

literature

• Harou Abdou: Etude de l'évolution d'un agrosystème: le cas du village de Tarna (Maradi) . Thesis. Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 1999.
• Aminou Jadi: Inventaire et cartographie du massif forestier-nord Baban-Rafi (arrondissement de Guidan-Roumdji) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1991.
• Issaka Mamane: Etude comparative sur les avantages agronomiques et économiques de la rotation mil-arachide et mil-niébé. Cas de Safo Nassaroua (Madarounfa) . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1997.
• Mahaman Lawan Sani: Contribution à l'étude de l'élevage de l'élevage aux activités d'aménagement de la fôret de Baban Rafi . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1992.
• Issa Idrissa Noma: Caractéristiques agro-socio-techniques des exploitations agricoles des villages near the station de recherche de Tarna-Maradi . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey 1998.
• Claude Raynaut: Transformation du système de production et inégalité économique: le cas d'un village haoussa (Niger) . In: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines . Vol. 10, No. 2 , 1976, p. 279-306 , doi : 10.2307 / 483834 .
• Laouali Tahirou: Evaluation of the innovations et pratiques en matière de fertilité des sols dans la commune rurale de Safo . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niamey 2010.
• Abass Tidjani: Contribution à l'évaluation des terres de la forêt de Baban n'Rafi . Faculté d'Agronomie, Université de Niamey, Niamey 1990.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, pp. 267–268 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French). 
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. ↑ 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 file; 2.25 MB). Published May 2009, accessed March 19, 2012. 
4. ↑ M. Gandah, B. Danjimo, A. Toudjani: Gestion de l'aire protégée de Baban Rafi par les communautés rurales locales. Un exemple d'autogestion  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 358 kB). Biodiversity International website, accessed April 16, 2012.  
5. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 246.
6. ↑ El Kaougé Mahamane Lawaly: Litige Foncier à Maradi: Quand SATU. SA s'en mêle! In: Niger Diaspora. May 21, 2014, accessed April 30, 2018 (French). 
7. ^ Institut Nationale de la Statistique du Niger (ed.): Annuaire statistique des cinquante ans d'indépendance du Niger . Niamey 2010 ( online version ; PDF file; 2.99 MB), p. 54.
8. ↑ 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). 
9. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 50.
10. ^ Comprendre l'économie des ménages ruraux au Niger . Save the Children UK, London 2009 ( online version ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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 note. ; PDF; 2.6 MB), p. 8.