La production porcine antillaise est assurée à la fois par des élevages spécialisés de type industriel et par des systèmes alternatifs dépendants fortement de la biodiversité disponible dans leur environnement. Ces derniers systèmes se caractérisent principalement par la présence de plusieurs productions (végétales et élevages) et ils sont des supp...
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Dans les premières décennies du XIXe siècle, la forêt de la Double n’est plus que l’ombre d’elle-même, un vaste taillis marécageux en proie à l’insalubrité et aux fièvres paludéennes où survit difficilement une population miséreuse. Petit à petit des notables locaux s’émeuvent de la situation. Forts des exemples de la Dombes, de la Sologne ou des L...
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An ancient offshore bar of the Rhone Delta between Aigues-Mortes on the west and the Little Rhone on the east bears the traces of several successive adjustments since the end of the nineteenth century. The initial agricultural conquest of the area came during the phylloxera crisis in the Bas-Languedoc when large vineyards were established in the sa...
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Catalan industrial colonies are still, in the early 21st century, a subject of passion and controversy. A historical approach, based on the study of company archives, has uncovered a few rare cases, which explains why these colonies are the subject of passionate and commemorative interpretation. It is important that we take a more dispassionate app...
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In the first decades of the 19th century, the Forest of La Double was no more than a shadow of its former self, a vast marshy copse, that was unhealthy and a haven for malarial fever, in which a poor community struggled to survive. Little by little, the local gentry became concerned about this situation. Drawing on previous experiments in the Dombe...
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Colloque « les mondes ruraux à l'épreuve des sciences sociales », Dijon, mai
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In the aftermath of the French Revolution, with a new centralized political system, and the emergence of industrialization and urbanization, not to mention an atmosphere of liberal, physiocratic and productivist ideas, the development of woodlands in Provence was radically called into question. In this pivotal period, at the turn of the 19th centu...
