Aiming to mitigate land conflicts in Cote d’Ivoire, the Ministry of Agriculture announced the upcoming establishment of a rural land agency (AFOR). Actually, the decree allowing the establishment of the agency has already been adopted in a council of ministers.

Dedicated to mitigating, and eliminating even, land-related conflicts, the new agency will, according to website Koaci, be “in charge of developing strategies and programmes to mobilize resources. The implementation of the agency will help insure the full application of the law on rural lands, especially the 1998 law on land”.

Once operational, the AFOR will help considerably simplify procedures related to the registration and securing of rural lands as well cut costs for these operations, thereby helping not only land owners but land users as well.

It should be recalled that two weeks ago, Ivorian authorities launched a sensitization campaign on the rural land law.

Souha Touré