[ CONDITIONS DE VIE SOCIO-ECONOMIQUE ET PROBLEMATIQUE DE LA CONTRIBUTION DES POPULATIONS RIVERAINES A LA CONSERVATION DU PARC NATIONAL DE LA COMOE (PNC) EN CÔTE D’IVOIRE ]
Volume 21, Issue 4, November 2017, Pages 656–673
Valoua FOFANA1 and Mariam CAMARA2
1 Département de Sociologie, Université Alassane Ouattara, BPV 18 Bouaké 01, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Centre Ivoirien Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CIRES), Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny, 08 BP 1295 Abidjan 08, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 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.
This survey puts a specific stress on the difficulties to conciliate the preservetion and developpement objectives in the space comoe areas. Despite the financial backers and the ivorian authorities willingness to involve the riverside residents in the nature reserve management and preservation through the base infrastructures realization and socioeconomic projects, the athropic aggressions haven’t ceased truly. The investigation made in 10 (ten) localities clearly shows that the populations continue exploiting the nature reserve resources as part of agro-pastoral activities (farming of the outskirt, breeding in the park) and the houseworkers (firewood), etc. The persistence of these non-conservatist attitudes could be explained by the lack of base infrastructures or the socioeconomic projets financing as well as viability of substition projects (financing of producing-income activities) in other areas. And yet, these projects and infrastructures supposed to improve the riverside populations living conditions remain the key elements to the participatory management of the park’s biological diversity. The national authorities and the financial backers sould better give a particular interest to the raising of their socioeconomic standard of living in order to obtain from the riverside residents a real collaboration in the management and conservation of the world patrimony, that is the Comoe National Park (CNP).
Author Keywords: Base infrastructures, socioenomic projects, anthropic aggression, local developpement, locality, biodiversity, financing, participatatory management.
Volume 21, Issue 4, November 2017, Pages 656–673
Valoua FOFANA1 and Mariam CAMARA2
1 Département de Sociologie, Université Alassane Ouattara, BPV 18 Bouaké 01, Côte d’Ivoire
2 Centre Ivoirien Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CIRES), Université Felix Houphouët-Boigny, 08 BP 1295 Abidjan 08, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 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
This survey puts a specific stress on the difficulties to conciliate the preservetion and developpement objectives in the space comoe areas. Despite the financial backers and the ivorian authorities willingness to involve the riverside residents in the nature reserve management and preservation through the base infrastructures realization and socioeconomic projects, the athropic aggressions haven’t ceased truly. The investigation made in 10 (ten) localities clearly shows that the populations continue exploiting the nature reserve resources as part of agro-pastoral activities (farming of the outskirt, breeding in the park) and the houseworkers (firewood), etc. The persistence of these non-conservatist attitudes could be explained by the lack of base infrastructures or the socioeconomic projets financing as well as viability of substition projects (financing of producing-income activities) in other areas. And yet, these projects and infrastructures supposed to improve the riverside populations living conditions remain the key elements to the participatory management of the park’s biological diversity. The national authorities and the financial backers sould better give a particular interest to the raising of their socioeconomic standard of living in order to obtain from the riverside residents a real collaboration in the management and conservation of the world patrimony, that is the Comoe National Park (CNP).
Author Keywords: Base infrastructures, socioenomic projects, anthropic aggression, local developpement, locality, biodiversity, financing, participatatory management.
Abstract: (french)
Cette étude met un accent particulier sur les difficultés à concilier les objectifs de conservation et de développement dans les localités de l’espace Comoé. Malgré la volonté des autorités ivoiriennes et des bailleurs à impliquer les populations riveraines dans la gestion et la conservation du parc en procédant par la réalisation d’infrastructures de base et de projets socio-économiques, les agressions anthropiques n’ont véritablement pas cessé. L’enquête menée dans 10 localités démontre que les populations continuent d’exploiter les ressources du parc dans le cadre des activités agro-pastorales (agriculture à la périphérie, élevage dans le parc) et des tâches ménagères (bois de chauffe), etc. La persistance de ces comportements anti-conservationnistes s’expliquerait par le manque d’infrastructures de base ou de financements de projets socio-économiques dans certaines localités ou/et le manque de viabilité des projets de substitution (financement des activités génératrice des revenus) dans d’autres. Or, ces infrastructures et projets sensés améliorer les conditions de vie des populations riveraines sont les éléments clés de la gestion participative de la biodiversité du parc. Les autorités et les bailleurs gagneraient donc à accorder un intérêt particulier à l’élévation de leur niveau de vie économique et sociale afin d’obtenir de la part des riverains une franche collaboration dans la gestion et la conservation de ce patrimoine mondial qu’est le parc Mondial de la Comoé (PNC).
Author Keywords: Infrastructures de base, projets socioénomiques, agression anthropique, développement local, localité, biodiversité, financement, gestion participative.
How to Cite this Article
Valoua FOFANA and Mariam CAMARA, “SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIVING CONDITIONS AND PROBLEMATIC OF THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE BORDERING POPULATIONS TO THE CONSERVATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK OF COMOE (PNC) IN IVORY COAST,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 656–673, November 2017.
