Social Constraints of Rural Land Management in Cote d’Ivoire And Legal Contradictions

Abstract

Land management in Côte d'Ivoire is based on two major systems of values: custom on the one hand, laws and regulations of the other. To supervise the land, everyone based on the register which provides the greatest possible benefits (Lavigne Delville, 1999). Based on the law, the State, local, large public or private companies expropriate populations who, referring to the customary law, refuse to give up the yield.