The objectives of this study are to identify the actors and actions that contribute to the development of the regional area of Kimvula, to demonstrate that the territory of Kimvula is underdeveloped, to show the problems of this situation and the strategies to ensure the integral development and to solve the problem of its poor development. The results obtained from this study affirm that the level of the development is in decline (opinion of 60 percent of subjects surveyed), or in stagnation (opinion of 34.5 percent of subjects surveyed) and without opinion (opinion of 5.5 percent of subjects surveyed). The long-term development of Kimvula therefore requires diversification of their economies into the production of tradable goods. It is also necessary in the medium term because the territory is isolated from a possible reversal, even temporary, in the current trend in raw material prices. Diversification of production can follow several directions. The evacuation of agricultural products is a first path. But also, significant investments in transport infrastructure and the rehabilitation of agricultural service roads. National governments and international development agencies have neglected for too long the potential that the territory of Kimvula represents.

This study on the impact of agriculture was carried out in the province of central Kongo, precisely in the territory of Kimvula. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate tha the lack of supervision of peasants, the poor condition of the roads means that the vehicles of traders no longer arrived at Kimvula, this handicaps the development of peasant agriculture in the area under study. To do this, we have used the following methods and techniques: analytical, inductive ant interview survey. The results showed that the territory of Kimvula has an agriculture that does not have a positive impact on economic development due to low production. Indeed, we note that agricultural production in 2020 and 2022 has either deteriorated or fallen to worrying proportions. This situation has negatively influenced the standard of living of the population.This means that agricultural production in Kimvula has not been able to feed its population and therefore ensure its own food security. Mainly due to low production. The majority of Kimvula households have low incomes and therefore low purchasing power and uncomfortable living conditions.

Through this article, the authors expose the causes that prevent the marketing of food and manufactured products in the rural world of Kimvula and suggest some possible solutions. This study aims to identify the problems of marketing in this environment where commercial space is undisputed. The results show that the rural territory of Kimvula, in the province of Kongo Central, is experiencing serious marketing problems. This situation is not conductive to its development. To better understand this problem of marketing, the authors explain the organization of markets and also show that the territory of Kimvula is not a disputed commercial space based on field data. This situation in linked to the lack of markets, the poor state of roads and bridges, the lack of traders and vehicles. Our investigation showed that there are no permanent and well- organized markets in the territory of Kimvula where farmers can obtain food supplies other than agricutural ones (horse mackerel, salted fish, milk) from traders.

This study on the rural environment has been carried out in the province of Kongo Central, precisely in the territory of Kimvula (South eastern part of Kongo Central province). Its overall objective is to identify the elements that make wi Kimvula a landlocked territory, to highlight the consequences of this crisis situation. Therefore, faced with this reality, socio-economic perspectives have been proposed to ensure its integral development. Observation and systemic methods using Arc-View and Arc-Gis Software were used for data processing and the development of geographical maps. The results show that the rural territory of Kimvula is experiencing serious communication problems with the major centers: Mbanza-Ngungu, Inkisi and Kinshasa. This situation is unfavorable to its development and its ecological, economic and social development. Added to this is the poor state of roads and bridges. As a result, young farmers leave rural areas for Kinshasa, Inkisi, Mbanza-Ngungu or Matadibecause of the geographical isolation. All those difficulties have led to the isolation of this territory compared to the other territories of the former Lukaya district.

The study took place in the rural areas of Kasangulu, Kimvula and Madimba (the former district of Lukaya) in order to access the topical organization of rural world, in a country where official data are rather unusual. This study allows to bring out resources and constraints of the studied areas, according to geographical and social point of view, in order to solve the problem of social and economical non integration. The observation method and the system method, using Arc-view and Arc-Gis softwares, have been used for data processing and maps elaboration. The rural areas of Kasangulu, Kimvula and Madimba in the province of Kongo Central have huge natural resources (potential). The climate and the soil accept crops that serve as basic food-stuffs for the population. These resources are undergoing anthropogenic aggression and are therefore in ecological imbalance due to a management that is ancestral rather than ecological: slash-and-burn farming is practiced from one location to another, land tenure empowers nobody as to the maintenance of the productivity of land assets, people tend to work on the steepest slopes, the forest and the savannah are burned every year. Additionally, there is a standing request from Kinshasa, the Capital of Democratic Republic of Congo for energy wood in the form of coal (makala) and firewood (nkuni). All these activities have led to deforestation, soil depletion, reduced agricultural yields, gradual disappearance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and the impoverishment of the indigenous population. The social and economical non integration results from the fact that in production implements, in transportation and hydroelectric infrastructures, there is no sufficient investment in favour of rural populations. Natural resources and agricultural productions are not more sufficient and the evacuation towards big centres of consumption, instead of multiplying the populations wealth of the studied areas, creates a shortage. Decision makers are then invited to play their role to help the rural population develop itself harmoniously by minimizing constraints.