ABSTRACT
Daru Kimbu is a small peanut, millet and sorghum farming village of 570 Serer and Wolof inhabitants, located in the forests of the upper Gambia River Basin in the Tambacounda Region of Eastern Senegal, When I first visited Daru Kimbu in the dry season of 1986/87, there were over 100 migrant Fulbe, from neighbouring Guinea, living in the village and cutting wood in the surrounding forests to produce charcoal for urban markets. This fairly common concentration of surga, as the charcoal producers are called, represented a tremendous pressure on the village forests. 2
