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.