Since 2012, development actors have promoted supplemental irrigation from farm ponds to cope with rainfall variability in Burkina Faso, but few farmers have adopted the innovation. Although harvesting runoff water in ponds is an old practice in Sahelian Burkina Faso, farmers were not accustomed to irrigating crops with stored rainwater. In the cont...
Much of the research on behavioural preferences as predictors of compliance with regulations aimed at reducing the transmission of COVID-19 has focused on developed countries, with very little consideration of African countries. We conduct an online survey (n = 1503) considering beliefs, and individual and social preferences as predictors of compli...
Desmurget (2019) a sévèrement condamné l'utilisation des écrans par les jeunes enfants (avant 6 ans) car elle pourrait les « décérébrer ». L'analyse critique de son argumentation suggère cependant qu'un tel rejet pourrait être une position par trop radicale. Les premières données scolaires de l'étude Elfe (Etude longitudinale française depuis l'enf...
This study uses an online laboratory experiment and a post-experimental survey to test whether the Mastercard Foundation (MCF) scholarship programme causally influences the creation of cognitive social capital among University of Pretoria recipients. Cognitive social capital, which is based on commonly shared norms among subjects, leads to honest a...
Objective: To explore communities' perspectives on the factors in the social food environment that influence dietary behaviours in African cities. Design: A qualitative study using participatory photography (Photovoice). Participants took and discussed photographs representing factors in the social food environment that influence their dietary beha...
The use of laboratory experiments to study issues in agricultural policy has grown in prominence within the fields of agricultural and environmental economics. Such experiments are often conducted with university students and framed in an abstract manner. This raises questions about whether the findings of these experiments provide reliable insight...
Published in Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde
L’alimentazione con razioni miste è una pratica ampiamente utilizzata per i bovini per garantire l'assunzione di una dieta equilibrata e ridurre la competizione per il cibo. Visto che i piccoli ruminanti differiscono dai bovini per il loro comportamento alimentare e sociale non è chiaro se le razioni miste presentino per loro gli stessi vantaggi. I...
Published in Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement
Introduction : les représentations sociales (RS) des infirmières sur la maladie VIH-sida et les soins fournis aux personnes vivant avec le VIH sont diverses et différentes selon les contextes. L’étude vise la compréhension des RS des infirmières sur la maladie et sur les soins dispensés.Méthode : il s’agit d’une étude qualitative réalisée en 2018 a...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the French Government imposed a strict lockdown from March 17th to May 11th 2020. These extraordinary times challenged the social norm of commensality, a practice that is particularly strong and engrained in France. How has lockdown impacted meal-sharing habits? How have the rules and norms of commensality withstood th...
