This article aims to understand the link between urbanization and land governance in the peri-urban area of Yamoussoukro. It analyzes the explanatory factors of the persistence of land conflicts in the peri-urban area of Yamoussoukro. The study was based on a methodology based on documentary research, observation of the field and an interview with the actors involved in land management (customary authorities, officials of the technical service of the Yamoussoukro town hall, the management regional office of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Urban Planning, economic operators). The results obtained reveal that today, with urbanization, issues have arisen around land in the peri-urban villages of Yamoussoukro. Land issues due to urban pressure mean that the governance of this resource is now at the heart of many disputes. The lot sharing process after subdivision is characterized by the frustration of certain social groups within the families. In peri-urban villages, the mode of management operated by the actors in charge of land resources divides family members. In view of these frustrations, everyone is now claiming their share of the land inheritance that is rightfully theirs. Faced with rising tensions, the authorities in charge of managing this resource are now struggling to assert themselves. Their ineffectiveness only amplifies emerging conflicts. In such an environment, these land conflicts are increasingly violent.
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Okou Kouakou Norbert. (2023). Land Governance and Land Conflicts in the Peri-Urban Area of Yamoussoukro. Social Sciences, 12(4), 183-189. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ss.20231204.16
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