Step 3. How to analyze data?

Sébastien Bainville introduces the concepts used to study the Sikasso paradox.

Exercise: Analyse an interview and extract the key information. Elisabeth Rasse-Mercat interviewed an older farmer in the Villeveyrac basin. Watch and analyse the interview to extract the information that will allow you to compose the region’s agrarian history.

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Exercise: Compare the information with another interview to reconstruct the history of the region. Elisabeth Rasse-Mercat held another interview in the same area. Watch and analyse it to extract the key information that you can then compare with the information collected from the previous interview.

Elisabeth Rasse-Mercat shows how, by adding some bibliographic data, the information collected from these two interviews allows you to reconstruct a large part of the Agrarian history of the Villeveyrac region.

Written exercise: Compose a historical timeline. From all of the previously gathered information, compose a chronological timeline that represents the Agrarian History of the Villeveyrac basin, with a focus on the appearances, disappearances and evolutions of:

• Farming practices
• Types of farms