Paper short abstract:

Around the African metropolises, farming takes specific forms connected to the closeness of the city. The aim of this communication is to investigate the relations between farming and metropolization around Abidjan, metropolis of 5 million inhabitants.

Paper long abstract:

Around the African metropolises, farming takes specific forms connected to the closeness of the city. The aim of this communication is to investigate the relations between farming and metropolization around Abidjan, metropolis of 5 million inhabitants.

An autochthonous agriculture exists for a long time. It unevenly resisted and evolved. New forms of agriculture appear.

But are these new forms of farming only connected to the growth of the city, which influences the cost of the land and the development of an urban market? Or are they in connection with the new functions of a metropolis opened on the whole world?

It seems that the evolution of farming around Abidjan is more in connection with the simple urban growth than with phenomena of metropolization as we can find them around other world big cities (as Shanghai or Cape Town for example). This situation seems to be connected with the weak role of the Ivory Coast capital at the world level. It is what we will try to demonstrate in this communication, on basis of field works realized in the 2010s.