Berchoux, Tristan Watmough, Gary R. Amoako Johnson, Fiifi Hutton, Craig W. Atkinson, Peter M.
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Ambio
The main determinants of agricultural employment are related to households’ access to private assets and the influence of inherited social–economic stratification and power relationships. However, despite the recommendations of rural studies which have shown the importance of multilevel approaches to rural poverty, very few studies have explored qu...
Jeder, H. Ben Hamza, E. Belhouchette, H.
Increasing pressures on water resources are causing many countries in Mediterranean to (re)consider various mechanisms to improve water use efficiency for agricultural like Tunisia country. The price mechanism remains the most appropriate instrument to allocate this water resource, but the search for the optimal price of water that reconciles diffe...
Berchoux, Tristan Watmough, G.R. Hutton, C.W. Atkinson, P.M.
Spatial factors, such as environmental conditions, distance to natural resources and access to services can influence the impacts of climate change on rural household livelihood activities. But neither the determinants of precarious livelihoods nor their spatial context has been well understood. This paper investigates the drivers of livelihood pre...
Souissi, Imen Boisson, Jean Marie Mekki, Insaf Therond, Olivier Flichman, Guillermo Wery, Jacques Belhouchette, Hatem
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Regional Environmental Change
This study considers a quantitative approach for assessing the performance of Tunisian farming systems to face climate change. It is based on the resilience concept and the calculation, with a modelling chain, of three indicators: land stock, labour stock, and income flux. Two system states, “base” and “climate change”, and a time horizon of 2010–2...
Traoré, S. Le Bars, Marjorie
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Hassane, R. Gastineau, Bénédicte Guichard, F. Sultan, Benjamin Vishel, T.
Rouvroy, C. de Penot, E. Le Grusse, P. Danthu, P.
À Madagascar, l'agriculture demeure la principale activité économique, dominante dans les zones rurales. Elle est caractérisée sur la côte Est par une importante production de cultures de rente comme la vanille, le girofle et le café destinées en majorité à l'exportation (SNISE, 2010). Ces productions apportent des revenus complémentaires important...
Chenoune, Roza Allen, Thomas Komarek, Adam M. Gomez y Paloma, Sergio Flichman, Guillermo Capillon, Alain Belhouchette, Hatem
Although Sierra Leone aims to improve the livelihoods of its rice-farming households, the effect of specific policychanges on diverse households remains an open question. This study presents a household model that simulates strategies of production and consumption for rice-farming households in Sierra Leone. It accounts for nonseparability between ...
Droy, Isabelle Rabevohitra, B.N. Bidou, J.E.
A partir de l’exemple du "pays du girofle" sur la côte orientale de Madagascar, cet article décrit l’articulation spatiale et temporelle des vulnérabilités des ménages ruraux en s’appuyant sur des données d’observatoires. Le cadre d’analyse des moyens d’existence permet d’identifier les stratégies mises en place par les populations pour s’adapter à...
Droy, Isabelle Rabevohitra, B.N. Bidou, J.E.
A partir de l’exemple du "pays du girofle" sur la côte orientale de Madagascar, cet article décrit l’articulation spatiale et temporelle des vulnérabilités des ménages ruraux en s’appuyant sur des données d’observatoires. Le cadre d’analyse des moyens d’existence permet d’identifier les stratégies mises en place par les populations pour s’adapter à...
