THIS situation, which reflects a sharp deterioration in the Tunisian countryside,

is the result of a fairly complex development but the main cause of which is the
brutal contact with colonization and in general the brutal integration of Tunisian
campaigns in the circuit of an imperial economy. Colonization did not gradually
monopolize a good part of the arable land by pushing back the fellahs then towards
the slums, it disorganized the old agro-pastoral equivalence of the tribes of the
Center and the South by seizing the old ones. summer course; it considerably
reduced rural employment by systematizing mainly the highly mechanized cereal
monoculturea. At the same time as this direct disorganization of the old rural
structures, it SUBMERGED THE MARKET FOR ITS various PRODUCTS and DISORGANIZED THE
FORMER FAMILY CRAFT PRODUCTION and WIDELY DISTURBED TRADITIONAL EXCHANGE CIRCUITS
between the different your rural communities. Thus, the Tunisian peasantry has
lost part of its land, it has seen its artisanal and commercial activity reduced,
its very production has suffered a relative devaluation in relation to colonial
production; she thus saw her various sources of income diminish or even disappear
when she had to buy more and more imported products on the market (clothing, tea,
sugar, etc.), and thus spend her income more and more lean. only on rocky slopes
- At the same time