[ Analyse de la vulnérabilité des espaces agricoles dans le département d’Abengourou (Est de la Côte d’Ivoire) ]
Volume 44, Issue 1, November 2024, Pages 253–275
KOFFI Innocent1
1 Géographie, Laboratoire Ville, Société et Territoire (LABO VST), Université Alassane OUATTARA, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The expansion of the plantation economy has led to difficulties in many rural areas of Côte d’Ivoire, and specifically in Abengourou. These difficulties can be seen in the ageing of cocoa orchards and the scarcity of arable land. This situation makes farmland vulnerable. The aim of this study is to map vulnerable agricultural areas in order to contribute to better management. In addition to data collected through literature and field missions, the results are based on AHP multifactorial spatial analysis techniques and geographic information systems (Land suitability map). The results showed that two groups of factors govern the vulnerability of agricultural land in the Abengourou department. These are physical and anthropogenic factors. The combination of these factors enabled us to identify five levels of vulnerability, from the most vulnerable to the least vulnerable. Level 1 is the extremely vulnerable zone (30.54%), followed by level 2 (very vulnerable, 16.68%), level 5 (less vulnerable, around 10.61%), level 3 (highly vulnerable, 27.79%) and level 4 (moderately vulnerable, 12.38%). People are adopting various strategies to deal with land vulnerability. These include changing the rules governing access to land, adopting agroforestry and using phytosanitary products to improve production. In addition, the study revealed that areas with different levels of vulnerability have different cropping histories, namely: dense forest (16,478 ha, 14.06%), degraded forest (11,364 ha, 9.7%), fallow-crop (21,808 ha, 18.61%), lowland (37,199, 31.75%) and annual cropping (30,324 ha, 25.88%). These cropping histories would provide clues for decision-making in the planning and sustainable management of arable land.
Author Keywords: vulnerability, agricultural land, mutations, adaptation strategies, Abengourou.
Volume 44, Issue 1, November 2024, Pages 253–275
KOFFI Innocent1
1 Géographie, Laboratoire Ville, Société et Territoire (LABO VST), Université Alassane OUATTARA, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The expansion of the plantation economy has led to difficulties in many rural areas of Côte d’Ivoire, and specifically in Abengourou. These difficulties can be seen in the ageing of cocoa orchards and the scarcity of arable land. This situation makes farmland vulnerable. The aim of this study is to map vulnerable agricultural areas in order to contribute to better management. In addition to data collected through literature and field missions, the results are based on AHP multifactorial spatial analysis techniques and geographic information systems (Land suitability map). The results showed that two groups of factors govern the vulnerability of agricultural land in the Abengourou department. These are physical and anthropogenic factors. The combination of these factors enabled us to identify five levels of vulnerability, from the most vulnerable to the least vulnerable. Level 1 is the extremely vulnerable zone (30.54%), followed by level 2 (very vulnerable, 16.68%), level 5 (less vulnerable, around 10.61%), level 3 (highly vulnerable, 27.79%) and level 4 (moderately vulnerable, 12.38%). People are adopting various strategies to deal with land vulnerability. These include changing the rules governing access to land, adopting agroforestry and using phytosanitary products to improve production. In addition, the study revealed that areas with different levels of vulnerability have different cropping histories, namely: dense forest (16,478 ha, 14.06%), degraded forest (11,364 ha, 9.7%), fallow-crop (21,808 ha, 18.61%), lowland (37,199, 31.75%) and annual cropping (30,324 ha, 25.88%). These cropping histories would provide clues for decision-making in the planning and sustainable management of arable land.
Author Keywords: vulnerability, agricultural land, mutations, adaptation strategies, Abengourou.
Abstract: (french)
L’essor pris par l’économie de plantation a engendré des difficultés dans de nombreux espaces ruraux en Côte d’Ivoire et spécifiquement à Abengourou. Ces difficultés se manifestent par le vieillissement des vergers cacaoyers, la rareté des terres cultivables. Cette situation rend vulnérable les terres agricoles. L’objectif de cette étude est de cartographier les espaces agricoles vulnérables afin d’en contribuer à une meilleure gestion. En plus des données collectées au travers de la littérature et des missions de terrain, les résultats s’appuient sur les techniques d’analyse spatiale multifactorielle AHP et des systèmes d’informations géographiques (Land suitability map). Les résultats ont montré que deux groupes de facteurs président la vulnérabilité des terres agricoles à l’échelle du département d’Abengourou. Ce sont les facteurs physiques et les facteurs anthropiques. La combinaison de ces facteurs a permis d’identifier cinq niveaux de vulnérabilité, des plus vulnérables aux moins vulnérables. Le niveau 1 est la zone extrêmement vulnérable (30,54%), suivi du niveau 2, très vulnérable (16,68%) au niveau 5 (moins vulnérable environ 10,61%) en passant par les espaces de niveau 3 (fortement vulnérable, 27,79%) et niveau 4 (moyennement vulnérable, 12,38%). Face à la vulnérabilité des terres, diverses stratégies sont adoptées par les populations. Il s’agit de la modification des règles d’accès à la terre, de l’adoption de l’agroforesterie et de l’utilisation des produits phytosanitaires pour améliorer les productions. Par ailleurs, l’étude a révélé que dans les espaces à différents niveaux de vulnérabilités sont repartis des antécédents culturaux à savoir: la Forêt dense (16 478 ha, 14,06%), Forêt dégradée (11 364 ha, 9,7%), Jachère-culture (21 808 ha, 18,61%), Bas-fond (37 199, 31,75%) et Culture annuelle (30 324 ha, 25,88%). Ces antécédents culturaux constitueraient des indices de prises de décision pour une planification et une gestion durable des terres cultivables.
Author Keywords: vulnérabilité, terres agricoles, mutations, stratégies d’adaptation, Abengourou.
How to Cite this Article
KOFFI Innocent, “Analysis of the vulnerability of agricultural areas in the Abengourou department (East of Ivory Coast),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 253–275, November 2024.
