This article is a general introduction to the special issue of the ASRDLF symposium held in Martinique in 2011. It attempts to explain the reasons why a strong attention is being paid to migrations while international or long distance migrations are a profound and permanent reality. Wars,...

Several assessments of vulnerability and resilience have been attempted at a country level through composite indices but they are barely in accord with a holistic view of sustainable development. We suggest graph theory to structure a network of variables that depict vulnerability and resilience...

[eng] Proximity and capturing the regulator - The case of the banana producers in Martinique The European banana market generates regulated advantages. These advantages (called rent) are appropriated by producers by the mean of their influence on the regulator. These strategies of capture result...

Agriculture in Martinique still occupies a specific place and role although the activity is declining. The weak contribution of export agriculture (traditional crops : banana and sugar cane) to development, raises concerns about diversification and food security and sketches the broad outlines...

The continued spreading of household wastewater sludge on farmlands is a major economic and environmental issue. This practice is being challenged in France, mainly through pressure from the agrifood business. Here, by means of an agronomic analysis performed on 60 farms, we show the relevance...