L'autonomia comune: territori e progetti di sviluppo rurale decentrato nel plateau mossi (Burkina Faso)

The research intends to analyse the relationship between territories and decentralised rural development projects in the central region of Burkina Faso (plateau Mossi). The analysis of territorial dynamics has evidenced two reference parameters: the degree of local autonomy and the level of coordination between different territorial projects (exogenous and endogenous). The outcomes of such analysis have allowed to critically read the territorial impact of decentralised rural development projects, to confront them with the theoretical paradigm of local development and to define some elements of interest which need further researches.