Following the tribal allocation of land in the 1920s and the development of agriculture in the wadi area, the last six decades have seen the settlement of the majority of Bedouin tribes in Egypt. In the two last decades, the Bedouin in the Coastal Zone of the Western Desert had to cope with a...

Analyses of the roles of livestock in household livelihood in the context of global change and the different stresses triggered by such changes are not rare. However, the many changes that threaten the actual functioning of the systems and trigger many uncertainties concerning capacities to...

Summary The difficulty of valuation of livestock outputs has strong political and economic implications for farmers because policies require metrics. Based on a case study in Mali, this paper gives different estimations of the contribution of livestock to reducing poverty using different...

[eng] Véronique Alary and Mohammed El Mou rid — Food policies in North Africa and their consequences on agro-pastoral societies.. Until the adoption of liberalization policies from the 1980's, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have favoured a policy of food self-sufficiency based on economic...

[fre] Lorsqu'on applique aux taux d'actualisation les valeurs effectivement prises par les prix et les taux d'intérêts courants, il est rare de trouver une «valeur actuelle» positive pour un investissement forestier. Dans les pays en développement qui connaissant généralement des taux...

[fre] En 20 ans, la consommation moyenne de lait en Inde est passée de 112 grammes par jour par personne à près de 1 94 grâce à la mise en place d'un réseau de près de 75 000 coopératives sur tout le territoire indien. Aujourd'hui, le système coopératif laitier (nddb) détient 57 % du...