Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, this article investigates the under-researched demand-side of locally-financed Payments for Environmental Services (PES). It assesses downstream users' willingness to pay (WTP) for improved tap water quality in a setting where upstream...

A key issue in the context of increasing large-scale land acquisitions in developing countries is how poor populations can prevent their land rights being encroached upon by more powerful actors. To date, the majority of policy recommendations have been directed towards the legal recognition and...

</titre> In ?progressive circles?, microfinance is often denounced as a neoliberal project against the poor?s interests. The recent crises and rebellions led by the customers are seen in a positive light and would announce the end of the ?microfinance paradigm?. This study of the Nicaraguan crisis...

</titre> This article aims to reflect the debates sparked by Latin America?s New Left?s criticisms of microfinance, which experienced a dramatic boom during the last decades of neoliberal policies. It reports on an international conference held in November 2012 in Antwerp, where about fifty...

Organic farming and fair trade certified chains have emerged in West-Africa since the 1990s in answer to new alternative markets in developed countries. These chains, involving actors from North and South, are seen as an opportunity to sustainably valorise the small peasants agriculture in...