The globalisation of the economies of those last years threatened some national productive system and in particular the sector of the irrigated rice production of Ivory Coast of disappearance. In this paper, we examined the strategies of the actors of this sector using the notion of localised...

The paper demonstrates how the principle of local development may interact in low developed countries and more particularly in Western Africa. A first part describes both the elusion of the state, especially in low developed countries, and the spatial dispersal of social and economic forces....