ADOPTING AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION IN RURAL CÔTE D’IVOIRE: A PRACTICE WITH IDENTITY AT STAKE IN ANAGUIÉ
Auteur.e.s
Kabran Beya Brigitte ASSOUGBA , Aké Anicet Elvis AHOU.
Résumé
In Ananguié, cocoa farmers are increasingly complaining that the cocoa production system is undermining their social living conditions. This has prompted the introduction of rubber cultivation, seen as a new and socially more profitable form of agriculture. However, these same farmers are still attached to cocoa cultivation, which they consider to be economically unprofitable due to its biannual nature compared with rubber cultivation. Based on a purely qualitative study, this article seeks to understand farmers' agricultural choices against the backdrop of their relationship with social innovation. In doing so, it is a question of discussing the ideological foundations associated with the maintenance of farmers in the production of cocoa cultivation in Ananguié; and to explain the process of appropriation of farmers' agricultural choices.
Keywords : Agricultural innovation, economically profitable, identity issues, farmers, natives, non-natives