Like a paw striking an anthill, in the "Nuna country," a southern region of Burkina Faso bordering the Republic of Ghana, significant territorial changes are occurring, driven by various factors: population growth, rapid development of commercial agriculture, liberal agricultural and land policies, land acquisitions, and land grabbing by urban dwellers, primarily from Ouagadougou, the capital of the country. The resulting socio-economic and spatial restructuring highlights differentiated and unequal peasant categories.

In addition to new political, economic, and cultural issues arising from this ongoing dynamic, the debate on the relationships between African agrarian societies, particularly those in West Africa, and the capitalist development model is being renewed. In a context where diversity and complexity appear to be increasingly important for understanding the dynamics within African peasant societies, the scenarios for the future of agriculture in this part of Burkina Faso are of scientific interest.

This book provides a contextualized analysis, based on precepts regarding African peasant developments, of the journey of a peasant society with a turbulent history against the backdrop of profound agricultural and land transformations.

Keywords: agricultural and land transformations, peasant categories, scenarios of evolution, Nuna country, Burkina Faso