Laboratoire Pôle de Recherche et d’Expertise sur la Dynamique des Espaces et des Sociétés (PREDES), Département de Géographie, Université de Kara, Togo
This article presents the different problems that Togo faces in its maritime space. The research methodology is based on field survey, observation, literature research and interviews. The talks concerned fishermen, market gardeners of the coastal cordon, resource persons from the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry in charge of the maritime economy, some associations, the authorities of the autonomous port of Lomé, and the Togolese navy. A total of 25 people are being investigated. The data collected was manually analyzed and processed. Excel, Word and ArcGis 10.4 software and allowed text formatting. The results show that Togo’s maritime space is confronted with environmental problems (erosion and pollution), mapping of available natural resources, legal delimitation of the effective boundaries of space, governance of space, problems related to the different actors and conflicts of use and security challenges of space.