Identité et marché dans une situation de pluralisme institutionnel : le cas du secteur agricole à Mayotte

• Main Authors: Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Perrine Burnod
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2009-01-01
• Series: Développement Durable et Territoires
• Subjects: agriculture; households; institutional changes; market; reciprocity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/7723

The island of Mayotte, where still dominate Moslem and customary rules privileging the collective dynamics to the individual initiatives, is engaged in huge institutional reforms that must lead it to the status of French department. The anchoring in the French republic maintains a rapid and consequent economic development but also questions former institutions, based on reciprocity and on local solidarity. The article focuses on agriculture and examines both the mechanisms of trade penetration and their opposite movements toward reciprocity that local actors implement to manage this situation of institutional pluralism.