In a process of world economic domination by an agro-industrial and agro-tertiary food system, the author wonders about the feasibility of an alternative model. The intensive agro-industrial model (financiarized, concentrated, specialized and globalized), allows remarkable results in terms of...

Among the outstanding theories of development economics, neoclassical liberalism is the one that integrates in its field the environment of the socio-economic system. Through the economics of natural inheritance, it advocates the monetary valuation of natural goods and services without respect...

Buddhism, one of the three largest religions in the world, is rich and deep in spirituality and philosophical content. In Asian and Western countries, the economic and managerial aspects of Buddhism have become a subject of renewed interest and many studies. The book What Buddhism can bring to...

Ce rapport, élaboré dans le cadre du programme de l’OCDE sur les Villes vertes, est une étude pilote qui a pour but d’évaluer le potentiel de la croissance verte au sein de la région Paris/Ile-de- France (Paris-IDF). Dans un contexte international très concurrentiel, avec des...

Les préoccupations sociales relatives aux activités agricoles ont de nos jours un rôle important dans l’évolution des politiques nationales. Ces préoccupations sont perçues différemment d’une société à l’autre tout comme les réponses des pouvoirs publics (instruments...

The debate on the issue of land rights and its impact on investment and agricultural productivity still divides economic experts and agricultural statistics. While some agree that the link is positive, the effects are often difficult to measure, it is sometimes not only due to the difficulty of...

Since 1984, Madagascar has adopted a series of structural adjustment measures with the assistance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, so as to increase performances of the agricultural sector. Structural policies have concerned the liberalization of internal and external...

While accused for wrong ways he has leaded (North/South imbalance, environmental troubles, food crisis, rural desertification…), agricultural development has lost credibility, and with him public policies linked. With an historical point of view, we attempt in this paper to show that fifty...

La pauvreté est un phénomène essentiellement rural et le secteur agricole joue un rôle primordial pour lutter contre ce fléau. Le développement et l’appui aux filières agricoles peuvent ainsi être un moyen efficace pour améliorer les conditions de vie et de travail des ruraux pauvres....