Pratiques agricoles des migrants burkinabè en Côte d'Ivoire et investissements socio-économiques liés à la culture du cacao

Agricultural Practices of Burkinabe Migrants in Côte d'Ivoire and Socio-economic Investments Related to the Cultivation of Cocoa. The political-military crisis that Côte d'Ivoire went through from 2000 to 2011 marked the neighboring countries, including Burkina Faso. Indeed, first State providing migrants to Ivory Coast, it faced many difficulties during this period, due to the high concentration of the Burkinabe community that resides there but also due to the commercial exchanges that exist between the two countries. The Ivorian agricultural sector is the domain of choice for many Burkina Faso citizens. We have highlighted in this research the agricultural activities and socio-economic investments related to the cocoa plantations of these migrants. Significant financial exchanges take place annually between the two countries, Burkina Faso being the main beneficiary. The most important financial transfers come from cocoa plantation which is the first export product of the Ivory Coast. It appears that remittances by Burkinabe migrants working in Ivorian plantations are mainly directed towards meeting the food needs of their families and investment in the real estate sector in Burkina Faso. A part of these transfers is absorbed by the impulses of solidarity of planters with their relatives. Thus, the emigrants establish and maintain relations with the family that has remained in the home country

Pratique cacaoyère, délitement de l'accès au foncier et sécurité alimentaire dans la sous-préfecture de Dania (centre-ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire)

Cocoa Cultivation, Disintegration of Land Access and Food Security in the Sub-prefecture of Dania (Center-west of Côte d'Ivoire). The cocoa plantations are exponentially increasing and most of the rural households in the forest area of Ivory Coast are involved in it. In the sub-prefecture of Dania, 77.7% of the households have a cocoa exploitation. Currently, the cocoa plantations in the area of Dania are facing a production crisis which is amplified by the military political crisis of September 2002. The incomes of the producers of cocoa are decreasing. Because of the great impact of the cocoa production on farm land, the available area to fulfill the food needs becomes insufficient. Forty three percent of the households lack sufficient land to satisfy their food production. The minimum period of seven year of fallow being no longer respected soil fertility problems are created and consequently a decrease of the agricultural yields. Fifty seven percent of the households are facing food insecurity. Therefore, the households have elaborated new strategies for land appropriation, such as the borrowing of farm land (13 %), the increased use of the phytosanitary products (52%) and particularly the higher attraction for the exploitation of fallow land (40%)