In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line with FDI. Hence the widely shared optimistic view about...

This paper sets up a balance of the economic approach of the concept of Localized Agri-food System, since its emergence ten years ago. It assesses its relationship with the more general Local Productive System approach : is it a mere variety of LPS by sector or does it entail a specific...

In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line with FDI. Hence the widely shared optimistic view about...

LAS (Localised Agri-food Systems) approach has been viewed until now as either an analysis of a variety of local production system or an anthropological vision of the links between food and places. Although theses approaches are relevant, they prove sometimes hard to differentiate themselves of...

La notion de Système agroalimentaire localisé (SYAL) est apparue, il y a une dizaine d'années, dans un contexte de crise des sociétés rurales, d'aggravation des problèmes environnementaux et des nouveaux défis alimentaires posés aux différentes sociétés des pays du Sud et du Nord,...

La notion de Système agroalimentaire localisé (SYAL) est apparue, il y a une dizaine d'années, dans un contexte de crise des sociétés rurales, d'aggravation des problèmes environnementaux et des nouveaux défis alimentaires posés aux différentes sociétés des pays du Sud et du Nord,...

La littérature montre que les exploitations agricoles des pays industrialisés se sont significativement agrandies durant la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle. Cet article s'intéresse aux facteurs influençant la croissance foncière des exploitations agricoles du sud-ouest de la France....

In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line with FDI. Hence the widely shared optimistic view about...

The reference to the “win-win” character of sustainable development policies is ubiquitous and gets back to the seminal Bruntland definition. It is particularly common in biodiversity protected areas management debate, frequently associated with poverty alleviation in Southern countries This...