Adiko, AmonchoGnonhouri, Philippe G.Namaganda, Josephine M.2022-05-102022-05-102008Adiko, A., Gnonhouri, P. G., & Namaganda, J. M. (2008). The Ivory Coast and Uganda. In Plant-Parasitic Nematodes of Coffee (pp. 305-313). Springer, Dordrecht.https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-1-4020-8720-2_17.pdfhttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/3217country of 322 thousand square kilometers, and inhabited by 16 million people, the Ivory Coast is considered the ‘economic lung’ of West Africa, with a GDP of 16.3 billion dollars in 2005. Nonetheless, social unrest and the instability of the international commodity market made the country’s annual growth rate fall from 7% in the 1990’s to 2% (Anonymous, 2006). The Ivory Coast’s prosperity is based primarily on agriculture, which accounts for 35% of the GDP, 70% of the export earnings, and 66% of the employment positions (Anonymous, 1997a). Major agricultural products are coffee, cocoa (40% of the world’s production), palm-kernel oil, cotton, rubber, banana, pineapple, and mango. The offshore reserves of oil and natural gas are also important assets for the national economy.enBook chapter