Abstract Severe ecological changes across the Sahel have created a difficult environment for agriculture and rural village economies. Rural communities, while small in scale, are creating new ways to transform their degraded environment. Their small size allows them to develop location-specific strategies to manage and improve water, soil and agriculture. This article focuses on two Sufi communities (daaras) in Senegal that integrate environmental work and spirituality. Religious organizations are influential in Senegal, as is the idea that labour is a part of both personal spirituality and shared religious teachings. As agriculture continues to be disrupted because of climate fluctuations, creating a habitable environment relies on applying region-specific agricultural science, and working through local structures. These conceptions of labour, along with the religious structures that support their work, make environmental projects spiritually significant, and also transformative for agriculture in a challenging environment.

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通过塞内加尔农村宗教社区解决干旱问题

摘要 萨赫勒地区严重的生态变化为农业和农村经济创造了艰难的环境。农村社区虽然规模较小，但正在创造新的方法来改造其退化的环境。他们的小规模使他们能够制定针对特定地点的策略来管理和改善水、土壤和农业。本文重点介绍塞内加尔的两个苏菲社区 (daaras)，它们将环境工作和灵性相结合。宗教组织在塞内加尔具有影响力，劳动是个人灵性和共同宗教教义的一部分的观点也是如此。由于气候波动，农业继续受到干扰，创造宜居环境依赖于应用特定区域的农业科学，并通过当地结构开展工作。这些劳动观念，