OASIS-CAMEL COMMUNION IN ALGERIA

Abstract

The reading of the Saharanspace in Algeriasheds light on the fact that it is there where the oldest and most refined agrarian civilizations of history were born and mutually fertilized. Oasis and camel intimately linked and in close synergy with a vulnerable and harsh ecosystem, but their relationship is both complementary and antagonistic. What meaning should we attribute to the oasis-camel pair in this third millennium? The evolution of oasis and camel systems revealed by the increase in demand for their products and services has helped to strengthen and especially to reshape this relationship.Henceforth, one as the other; they are deployed through a new multidimensional logic that would be projected into sustainability. Rather, they are to be reconsidered as a single entity stating an agro-socio-economic-ecological system in the full sense of the term. Today the real resources of this couple are economic, combining primary and secondary sectors (agriculture, industry and tourism) via a spatial dimension where local products are able to emerge in everyday life whose traceability and labeling would be the real guarantee of a largely sustainable development. It is in their most accomplished form of oasis-camel communion building around renewal and sustainability. This is what the present study attempts to highlight through this contribution.