The rate of unemployment in Lubumbashi remains high and for those which are likely to work, their monthly wages do not meet all the daily needs for their households. The survival of the majority of households is ensured more or less 75 % by the informal economy where especially the women are active. Night marketing in downtown area is one of the strategies of survival and constitutes a source of income making it possible to cover some domestic loads. This article aims to identify the economic activities of the households and to determine the contribution of each one of them in the domestic budget, to quantify certain current monthly expenditure of the households by identifying those which are financed by the night marketing of the agricultural produce. To reach that point, 62 salesmen were surveyed the night in the downtown of Lubumbashi in the interval of 17 h 30

The land is the main input in agriculture but the access to the latter remains especially a major challenge in urban area where the demographic growth is accompanied by a strong land pressure. This paper analyzes the access mode to the land and the management of the agricultural surfaces in the track farming sector at Lubumbashi. To arrive there, the following specific goals were pursued: to determine the various access modes to the land as of the cultivated acreages by these track famers with reference to the surfaces which they have in possession, to apprehend the stakes related to the land statute by identifying the category of the track famers more exposed to the land insecurity. So, 202 track farmers were interviewed in seven periurban track farm sites of Lubumbashi over one period from May 16th tot July 10th 2013. The tenants were numerous accounting 58,43% of the population, follow-up of the landowners who accounted for 17,35%.The average cultivated area was 1274,9

This study was initiated as part of making a place of state on horticulture in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It aims to analyze the contribution of the vegetable sector to poverty reduction through its impact on the income of vegetable growers. The study is realized in the large scheme of vegetable Kilobelobe in the Annex town in Lubumbashi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo.
From the data of the survey conducted in January-February and March 2014, we analyze the different functions of gardening and its effect on poverty reduction in the socio-economic context of Lubumbashi. We start from the assumption that households would benefit from the multiple functions of gardening, and it would contribute to poverty reduction. Thus, the study focused on a sample of 50 vegetable growers randomly drawn based on the census list available in the study site.
The results, it appears that producers benefit multiple socio-economic functions of gardening. In, fact, it appears from analyzes that this branch of family agriculture meets society's expectations: reducing unemployment, the main activity of peri-urban agriculture, and income-generating, contributing to health care, food security and to waste management through recycling biodegradable materials in other sectors (agriculture and livestock).

The objective of this work was to evaluate the incidence of the education in the socio-economic structures of rural households of Kipushi. An investigation was conducted near 123 rural households taken in a random way. The results show that there are more men (62, 5%) illiterate that the women. The study level does not influence the size of households but those for which the responsible did not study count 7

It from now on established that the development is the battle of the men and the women. In the agricultural field the ditch man-women still grows hollow so as to establish differences between these two actors. The objective of this study is to compare the dynamism of the man and the woman within the family farms. To arrive there, 123 farmers were surveyed in order to compare the sown surface with maize, the production released, the access mode to the ground, the participation of gender on family farm works. The results showed that more men or 34% accede to the ground by heritage whereas the majority of women or 47,8% obtain it by gift of the head of village. Statistically, the gender had not influence neither the surfaces sown nor the production obtained. Nevertheless, the average surface cultivated by the woman is 0,42 ha and a maximum of one hectare lower than 0,49 ha and 1,5 ha to the maximum sown by the man. The production of the man is 411kg higher than 311kg produced by the woman. However, this latter takes part in 58, 6% with the ploughing and sowing, in 71% with the maintenance of the exploitations when the man assumes heavy work like the clearing trees with 90, 5% and harvest with 45,7%.These results highlight the necessity to integrate the gender in the process of the agricultural and rural development considering the implication of both in the dynamics of the family farms.

This work had like objective to show the characteristics of the family farms in the current context of Kipushi in order to apprehend the stake for food safety. To arrive there, an investigation was led to 82 family farmers of Kasamba, Kashamata, Makwatsha and Mimbulu: villages of the agricultural zone of Lubumbashi from January to June 2014.This investigation revealed that for the whole of these studied villages, the average surface cultivated for all the crops is 96,5

In Katanga, the poverty and the deterioration of the livelihoods are at the base of the food insecurity especially in the agricultural households. The food request is an especially function of the number of people and purchasing power to them. This study had like objective to apprehend the food safety of the agricultural households of the territory of Kipushi by their food expenditure. To arrive there, an investigation was led to nearly 90 households taken in a random way in 6 villages of the territory of Kipushi over one period active of February in June 2012.The results of this study showed that the food expenditure by household was on average 3, 47$ for the whole of all the studied villages whose average size of household was 6,3. The daily consumption per capita in monetary term varied between 0, 47 and 0, 63$ and represents a convincing indicator of level of increased poverty (1, 25$ per capita per day). As for food consumption, the corn, the vegetables (cassava leaves) and the palm oil are food very consumed in the villages. The food practices, accessibility, the availability, the price would be the determining factors food consumption in the villages and at the same time the price of meat products would be a factor limiting for more than one agricultural household. Next research is very necessary to study the livelihoods of these households.