[ Stratégies de sécurisation alimentaire à travers l’exploitation des bas-fonds dans la sous-préfecture de Sinfra ]
Volume 43, Issue 1, July 2024, Pages 140–153
ZOGBO Zady Edouard1
1 Département de Géographie, Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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.
Author Keywords: Food security, food safety, strategies, lowlands, Sinfra.
Volume 43, Issue 1, July 2024, Pages 140–153
ZOGBO Zady Edouard1
1 Département de Géographie, Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
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.
Author Keywords: Food security, food safety, strategies, lowlands, Sinfra.
Abstract: (french)
En Côte d’Ivoire, les populations paysannes, en situation de crise alimentaire développent des stratégies à travers l’exploitation des bas-fonds pour garantir leur sécurité alimentaire. Cette étude menée à l’échelle de la sous-préfecture de Sinfra, se propose d’analyser les actions et processus mis en œuvre dans les espaces de bas-fond par les populations locales pour améliorer leur situation alimentaire. L’approche hypothético-déductive nourrie de l’analyse de données secondaires et primaires a été choisie pour analyser et comprendre la situation alimentaire et les stratégies paysannes de sécurisation alimentaire développées par les populations rurales à Sinfra. Les résultats ont montré que 56% des ménages enquêtés sont en sécurité alimentaire contre 44% en insécurité alimentaire dont 35% qualifié de modéré et 9 % de sévère. L’indice de sécurité alimentaire s’exprime de façon différentielle à l’échelle des localités de la sous-préfecture de Sinfra. Par ailleurs, un éventail de facteurs a permis d’expliquer la situation de précarité alimentaire dans laquelle vivent les enquêtés. Enfin, il est ressorti que plusieurs actions ont été mises en œuvre dans les bas-fonds pour garantir la sécurité alimentaire des ménages. Ces actions ont concerné la production exclusive de vivrier dans les bas-fonds, l’utilisation d’engrais (73%) pour améliorer la production et la diversification des sources d’aliments. L’étude a abouti à la conclusion que les initiatives étudiées contribuaient chacune à leur façon, à des degrés et dimensions différentes aux processus de sécurisation alimentaire.
Author Keywords: Sécurisation alimentaire, sécurité alimentaire, stratégies, bas-fonds, Sinfra.
How to Cite this Article
ZOGBO Zady Edouard, “Food security strategies through lowland farming in Sinfra sub-prefecture,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 140–153, July 2024.
