ABSTRACT
In Senegal (Map 10), 12 per cent of the population are Peuhl, the largest ethnic group after the Wolof and the Serere. Their main activity is herding and they hold more than 50 per cent of cattle, sheep and goats. Despite their demographic, economic and social importance, neither the Peuhl nor their livestock keeping system have been fully integrated into Senegalese society because livestock keeping and its associated use of the rangeland does not seem to accord with the state’s production objectives.
