\u00c0 Mbata, petit village de la Lobaye, les ramasseurs de chenilles s’inqui\u00e8tent. Il faut d\u00e9sormais parcourir plusieurs kilom\u00e8tres de for\u00eat pour rentrer avec une r\u00e9colte d\u00e9risoire, alors que ce mets figure parmi les plus consomm\u00e9s du pays, selon un reportage relay\u00e9 cette semaine par Radio Ndeke Luka. Une information br\u00e8ve, presque anodine au regard de l’actualit\u00e9 s\u00e9curitaire ou politique du moment. Elle m\u00e9rite pourtant qu’on s’y arr\u00eate, car elle dit quelque chose d’essentiel sur ce que la R\u00e9publique centrafricaine risque de perdre si elle continue \u00e0 regarder sa for\u00eat comme un d\u00e9cor plut\u00f4t que comme une ressource vivante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La chenille n’est pas un aliment mineur. Riche en prot\u00e9ines, bon march\u00e9, transmise de g\u00e9n\u00e9ration en g\u00e9n\u00e9ration, elle nourrit des familles enti\u00e8res pendant la saison des pluies et fait vivre des fili\u00e8res enti\u00e8res de collecte, de transport et de vente sur les march\u00e9s de quartier. Sa raret\u00e9 n’est donc pas un simple d\u00e9sagr\u00e9ment culinaire : c’est un signal d’alerte sur l’\u00e9tat des for\u00eats centrafricaines, soumises \u00e0 une pression croissante de la d\u00e9forestation, de l’exploitation informelle du bois et du changement des r\u00e9gimes de pluie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Il serait commode de r\u00e9duire ce sujet \u00e0 une anecdote de saison. Ce serait une erreur. Un pays qui laisse filer, sans inventaire ni suivi, les ressources qui nourrissent gratuitement une partie de sa population prend un risque silencieux mais r\u00e9el sur sa s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire. La chenille, comme le poisson de rivi\u00e8re ou le gibier de brousse, appartient \u00e0 cette \u00e9conomie de subsistance trop souvent invisible dans les statistiques nationales, et pourtant vitale pour des milliers de foyers ruraux qui n’ont pas d’autre filet de s\u00e9curit\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prot\u00e9ger cette ressource ne suppose pas de grands discours : cela suppose des inventaires forestiers s\u00e9rieux, une meilleure r\u00e9gulation de la coupe du bois autour des zones de collecte, et une attention politique enfin \u00e0 la hauteur de ce que ces produits repr\u00e9sentent r\u00e9ellement pour l’\u00e9conomie quotidienne des campagnes. Faute de quoi, ce qui se joue aujourd’hui \u00e0 Mbata dans l’indiff\u00e9rence g\u00e9n\u00e9rale pourrait bien, demain, se r\u00e9p\u00e9ter ailleurs, avec d’autres ressources et d’autres villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ce texte est un commentaire d’analyse, non attribu\u00e9 \u00e0 une personne r\u00e9elle ou fictive. Il pourra \u00eatre enrichi par le r\u00e9dacteur de v\u00e9ritables t\u00e9moignages recueillis aupr\u00e8s de ramasseurs, de commer\u00e7ants ou d’experts forestiers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Source : Radio Ndeke Luka (radiondekeluka.org), reportage sur la raret\u00e9 des chenilles \u00e0 Mbata (Lobaye).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c0 Mbata, petit village de la Lobaye, les ramasseurs de chenilles s’inqui\u00e8tent. 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