In Côte d’Ivoire, in a situation of food crisis, peasant populations are developing strategies to guarantee their food security by exploiting the lowlands. This study, carried out at the level of the Sinfra sub-prefecture, aims to analyze the actions and processes implemented in lowland areas by local populations to improve their food situation. A hypothetico-deductive approach based on the analysis of secondary and primary data was chosen to analyze and understand the food situation and farmers’ food security strategies developed by rural populations in Sinfra. The results showed that 56% of households surveyed were food-secure, compared with 44% who were food-insecure, 35% of whom qualified as moderate and 9% as severe. The food security index is expressed differentially across localities in the Sinfra sub-prefecture. In addition, a range of factors helped to explain the food insecurity situation in which the respondents live. Finally, it emerged that several actions had been implemented in the lowlands to guarantee household food security. These included the exclusive production of food crops in the lowlands, the use of fertilizers (73%) to improve production and the diversification of food sources. The study concluded that the initiatives studied each contributed in their own way, to different degrees and dimensions, to the food security process.

The plan Yabra is a group of hydro-agricultural development that led the ivoirian state in the seventies. This model of hydro-agricultural development granted the predominance to small familial exploitations in which most of operations were mechanized. More than 45 years after it was designed, it has seemed interesting to analyse if this model proved to be a good tool to the service of the agricultural putting into value of shallows and what ares the problems that have caused it putting into practice.