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
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
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
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