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Agricultural Practices of Burkinabe Migrants in Côte d'Ivoire and Socio-economic Investments Related to the Cultivation of Cocoa. The political-military crisis that Côte d'Ivoire went through from 2000 to 2011 marked the neighboring countries, including Burkina Faso. Indeed, first State providing migrants to Ivory Coast, it faced many difficulties during this period, due to the high concentration of the Burkinabe community that resides there but also due to the commercial exchanges that exist between the two countries. The Ivorian agricultural sector is the domain of choice for many Burkina Faso citizens. We have highlighted in this research the agricultural activities and socio-economic investments related to the cocoa plantations of these migrants. Significant financial exchanges take place annually between the two countries, Burkina Faso being the main beneficiary. The most important financial transfers come from cocoa plantation which is the first export product of the Ivory Coast. It appears that remittances by Burkinabe migrants working in Ivorian plantations are mainly directed towards meeting the food needs of their families and investment in the real estate sector in Burkina Faso. A part of these transfers is absorbed by the impulses of solidarity of planters with their relatives. Thus, the emigrants establish and maintain relations with the family that has remained in the home country.