war. Now my plantation is occupied too. It makes life really difficult. The food situation gets worse every day. It has plunged us into a poverty that we don’t even know how to describe.143 A 65-year-old Guéré from Douedy-Guézon, whose nephew, a youth, took advantage of his displacement to sell land the man inherited from his parents, described what happened and the consequences for his livelihood: The youth sold my land to a Burkinabé, a new immigrant [to the village]. It was 2 ½ hectares [he sold] without permission…. A Baoulé that has long lived and worked with us on another parcel saw the Burkinabé clearing the land and asked him who gave it to him, and he responded that it was [name omitted, the man’s nephew]. The Baoulé told him to stop, that [the Baoulé] had been with the family for a long time and it wasn’t the youth’s land, but the Burkinabé has continued … planting cocoa. It’s this land that feeds my family—the coffee plants that my father sowed and I now harvest. Because the Burkinabé is on my land, I couldn’t do the coffee harvest [which runs from December to February] this year.… Everything was destroyed during the crisis, I left for Liberia with nothing. Now I have returned and can’t make any money. The problems this year are going to be severe; I don’t know what my family will do.144 Residents of Pohan-Badouebly said the village is suffering from a severe food shortage as a result of many of their plantations being allegedly occupied through fraudulent sales.145 They said humanitarian organizations stopped food distributions in late 2012, an understandable decision given the return to relative security in western Côte d’Ivoire and the period of time removed from the crisis. But continued land dispossession may threaten some people’s ability to grow adequate food on their own. 143 Human Rights Watch interview with alleged victim of land dispossession by illegal sale, Goya, February 11, 2013. 144 Human Rights Watch interview with 65-year-old alleged victim of land dispossession by illegal sale, Douedy-Guézon, June 7, 2013. 145 Human Rights Watch interviews, Pohan-Badeoubly, February 11 and June 3, 2013. “THAT LAND IS MY FAMILY’S WEALTH” 50