For a decade, Fair Trade undergoes a radical change. Private firms are more and more involve in fair trade value chains. On the based of quinoa case in Bolivia, we highlight that northern firms? strategies in fair trade niche could provok substantial negative effects. Especially, vulnerability...

Mauritania has developed specific health policies for a long time. The country remains, however, highly affected by strong inequalities and difficulties concerning healthcare accessibility. In a first section, we propose an analytical framework following the capability approach and A. Sen ??s...

The Samaritain dilemma (Buchanan, 1975) is often quoted to criticize development assistance to poor countries. In this context it is interpreted very far from the original formulation relative to hijackers. This paper analyses the original dilemma.and the further interpretations.

Sorcerer Children is a new and growing phenomenon in Kinshasa. Children are accused of sorcery mainly by evangelist churches. Families believing in churches leaders are then convinced that their children are sorcerers. Children are then accused to be at the origin of all problems facing by...

</titre> <alinea/> Over the last decades common pool resource management has been developed increasingly. This paper focuses on the development of common pool forest management in French speaking subsaharian african countries, in a way of sustainability. It analyses the main stakes facing by forest management....

</titre> Sustainable development leads to a marginalization of its social dimension. This dimension has acknowledged a deep analytical renewal these recent years. The interactive dynamics of poverty and inequality are nowadays addressed together. The social dimension has been incorporated into the...

</titre> Within Fair Trade, labeled chains are often opposed to specialized chains. The first is for a number of years the subject of criticism. On the base of a set of ethical criteria, we argue that these criticisms are a bit steep. They forget the originality of labeled chains. Especially they are...

</titre> Fair trade is increasing in developing countries with in the same time some movements of local certification. We analyse this double movement. We underline the existence of three concomitant reasons : a reaction to the hegemony exerted by FLO on fair trade standards, the need to create new...