FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE: A STUDY BASED ON FARMING PRACTICES AMONG AGNI-BINI IN COTE D’IVOIRE

Summary: The issue raised by this study is related to the availability of food products and the actions of itssustainability in order to ensure current and future sufficiency. Indeed, in this context of the essentialfunctioning of the structural elements of a socio-economic system, the strategies of actors are part of a subtletyrequiring a minimum of conscious manoeuvring. The use of the same product feeding at the same time as asource of monetary income or of several food and commercial products describes a situation that deserves to bedelicately explored in an area where the actors practice agriculture to a large extent. This study mobilizes aqualitative approach through its phenomenological perspective with regard to the understanding or meaningthat resource actors give to food availability in a context of survival as well as resilient actions whosetemporality induces a questioning on vulnerability in a situation of sustainable development. The institutionalcontext of the practice of non-directly edible cultures influences the cultural behaviour of populations. It shouldalso be noted that the apprehension of food self-sufficiency is linked to an awareness of security.

Keywords: Agriculture – Availability – food security – behaviour – availability