Research Paper
Year: 2022 | Month: July | Volume: 9 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 688-703
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20220773
Dynamics of the Exploitation of the Alluvial Plain of the River Zotto in the Finage of Zépréguhe (Midwest, Cote D'ivoire)
Aka Giscard ADOU1, Quonan Christian YAO-KOUASSI2, Aymard Romuald LIGUE3, Zueli KOLI BI4
1Senior Lecturer,Laboratory of Study and Research on Tropical Natural Environments (LAMINAT)Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé (Daloa)
2Senior LecturerPermanent Researcher-Coordinator of the PoSTer research group (UJLoG Daloa)
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé (Daloa)
3PhD student,Laboratory of Study and Research on Tropical Natural Environments (LAMINAT)
Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé (Daloa)
4Laboratory of Study and Research on Tropical Natural Environments (LAMINAT)
Felix Houphouet-Boigny University
Corresponding Author: Aka Giscard ADOU
ABSTRACT
Located in the middle of the Ivorian forest zone, the alluvial plain of the Zotto River has been undergoing profound spatiotemporal changes for decades due to the emergence of anthropic activities that are constantly degrading the vegetation cover. The objective of this study is to map the dynamics of the land use of the said plain using remote sensing and GIS tools in order to better understand the evolutionary trend of the land use units in a context of sustainable management of existing natural formations. The achievement of this objective required the mobilisation of cartographic data (satellite images from 1986, 2000 and 2021) and field data (topographic surveys, documentary research, direct observation and questionnaire survey). The main results of the cartographic processing of the images reveal that the plain is undergoing an increasingly accelerated anthropogenic process. This anthropogenic process results in the saturation of the land on the one hand and its scarcity for agricultural activities on the other. In addition, our study highlights the multiple land conflicts encountered in Zépréguhé following the finage. Finally, it shows that land competition and other forms of use of the alluvial plain of the Zotto River are harbingers of deforestation.
Keywords: Dynamics, exploitation, alluvial plain, Zotto river, Zépréguhé.
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