Rural populations faced with environmental hazards : African experiences / Rural societies in the face of climatic and e...
Drip irrigation for agriculture : untold stories of efficiency, innovation and development
Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level studies to demonstrate the technology's ability to save water or improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptive engineering or economic language. They tend to be grounded in a firm belief in the technology and focus on the identification of ways to improve or better realize its potentia...
Des territoires vivants pour transformer le monde
Des territoires vivants pour transformer le monde
Subaltern urbanisation revisited
Subaltern urbanisation in India : an introduction to the dynamics of ordinary towns
Part III : Social changes in rural populations : introduction / Rural societies in the face of climatic and environmenta...
Rural societies in the face of climatic and environmental changes in West Africa
The future of West Africa depends on the capacity of its agriculture to ensure the food security of the population, which should double in the next 20 years, while facing up to the new risks resulting from climate warming. Indeed, the changes in temperature and precipitations already operating and that should become more marked will have serious ef...
Le Maroc et les changements climatiques : adaptation et résilience des sociétés
Les savoirs des communautés rurales relatifs à l'adaptation des pratiques agricoles et pastorales aux difficultés et aux aléas du climat leurs ont permis d'améliorer leur résilience dans un environnement naturel vulnérable et contraignant en assurant la production alimentaire et la provision de biens et services nécessaires à la production de la co...
Subaltern urbanisation in India : an introduction to the dynamics of ordinary towns
This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapt...
