Proliferation of wild habitats and their impact on rural development

Living conditions are unevenly distributed between urban centers and rural areas, ranging from abundance to extreme scarcity. On the one hand, cities enjoy public investment, basic social services, comfortable housing, leisure facilities, better working conditions, appropriate health care, renowned schools, a high standard of living, etc., while on the other, the countryside is naturally poor, agricultural, geographically deprived of investment opportunities and neglected because of its remoteness from decision-makers. Nowadays, rural dwellers are leaving the countryside, preferring to go deep into the bush to live in solitary wilderness settlements closer to their fields. As a result, villages are moving from their camps to the forest plains, creating a "leapfrog" migration with the collateral effects of fragile social cohesion, deforestation and precarious living conditions.

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Mangongo Damanzo Bienvenu, Graduated in Management of Rural Development Enterprises, Rural Development Studies at the Institut supérieur d'etudes agronomiques (ISEA) Bokonzi, in South-Ubangi, DRCongo; Provincial Inspection Officer for Rural Development in the province of South-Ubangi in Gemena.