Irrigated agriculture in Jordan's highlands relies on overexploited groundwater. Drops in water tables and water quality, but also tougher policy measures by the government, threaten the sustainability of this activity which has long thrived on lax law enforcement and cheap desert land. This paper is based on field work in two locations of Azraq gr...
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...
L'objectif de notre étude est d'analyser la résilience au sein de la filière lait malgache dans la région du Vakinankaratra. La filière a subi, un choc brutal en 2009 du fait de l'arrêt de l'activité d'un acteur majeur, l'industrie Tiko, qui était la principale entreprise de collecte et de transformation laitière dans l'ensemble du pays. Par ailleu...
This paper explores the long term sustainability of Argentina's specialization in genetically modified soybean cultivation. It is conceived as an evidence-based assessment of the most relevant economic, social, and environmental, implications of the “soybeanization” of Argentinian agriculture. We combine 2 sources of primary and secondary quantitat...
Migrant labourers, free from rural bondage, are now bonded to other sources of debt, contracted from the agro-industry or construction sectors. The flows of migration in the brick-making and sugar cane sectors in Tamil Nadu, where bondage coexists with many public welfare schemes, illustrate the persistence and renewal of this phenomenon. The welfa...
Migrant labourers, free from rural bondage, are now bonded to other sources of debt, contracted from the agro-industry or construction sectors. The flows of migration in the brick-making and sugar cane sectors in Tamil Nadu, where bondage coexists with many public welfare schemes, illustrate the persistence and renewal of this phenomenon. The welfa...
