DYNAMIQUE DES AGRICULTURES PERIURBAINES EN AFRIQUE SUB-SAHARIENNE ET STATUTS FONCIERS LE CAS DES VILLES D'ACCRA ET YAOUNDE

Sarah Dauvergne (1, 2)

1 UMR TETIS - Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale
2 EVS - Environnement, Ville, Société

Urban Agriculture dynamic in African cities and land use. This paper is about a PhD work started in 2008 on land use of urban and peri-urban spaces in two African cities: Yaoundé and Accra. Brutal transformation is the context on the peri-urban area in African cities. Many challenges for food security and governance exist in these fast urbanised peri-urban spaces. Urban agriculture has existed for a long time but there are today many questions: which are the consequences of the staying of agricultural activities in city on urban management, environment, food apply and social links? How are solved the conflicts about resources like water, land? Despite the importance of urbanisation, no specific institutions take care of the phenomenon of urban agriculture in Africa. The land ownership system, in particular, determines the future of agriculture. These spaces are intermediaries spaces because there are “between”. Some issues are very important in the two cities: competition between usage, rural depopulation, ethnical question, land monetization, rent repartition. We try to question the link between land status and agricultural systems in periphery if African cities, using the concept of intermediaries spaces. Is this special localisation and context an opportunity or a bridle for agricultural systems?

Mots clés: urban agriculture; sub-Saharan Africa; land ownership; land use; Accra; Yaoundé; intermediaries space

Domaines: Agriculture, économie et politique

Sarah Dauvergne. DYNAMIQUE DES AGRICULTURES PERIURBAINES EN AFRIQUE SUB-SAHARIENNE ET STATUTS FONCIERS LE CAS DES VILLES D'ACCRA ET YAOUNDE. ISDA 2010, Jun 2010, Montpellier, France. 12 p. ⟨hal-00539873⟩