The population is characterized by high rates of rural migration, which is also a phenomenon characteristic of all the villages of Fouta.

Farming and fishing supplemented the family's income but since 1970, which was the beginning of the drought and desertification, the environment has been depleted and lost all its potential to sustain the population.

Fish is more affordable (yaboy a kind of sardine) than meat and comes every morning in refrigerated trucks from the coastal villages of the country, such as Mbour.

In 2004, several scenes of Lili and the Baobab, a film by Chantal Richard played by Romane Bohringer, were shot at Agnam Lidoubé.

A structure to coordinate all social, educational, and economic activities, in which there are representatives of all of the village, was created in January 2007.