Foodstuffs High Cost and Household Resilience Strategies of Ahoussabougou and Teguere’s Neighborhoods in the Commune of Korhogo (Northern area of Côte d’Ivoire)

Abstract

The food crisis is increasingly becomming a problem of global security issue, since no country immune to it. Regular responses are provided by various governments and global financial economic institutions without achieving real results. Faced with the failures observed at the governmental and institutional level to stem the risks and disaster induced by climate change, actions are resolutely turning to local solutions. These include strategies adopted by households to address the problem of high food prices. It is in this pesrpective that this study contributes to understanding the causes of high food price and to highlighting the strategies developed by the urban households in the Ahoussabougou and Teguéré neighborhoods in the Commune of Korhogo. To meet that objective, this study used a mixed-methods approach, with involved both an interview guide and a questionnaire that served in interviewing all stakeholders. The results show a drastic increase in food prices for urban households in Korhogo. Households in Ahoussabougou and Teguéré are developing various and differentiated adaptation strategies that vary according to the type of household in order to respond to this inflation, which is a real "headache".