The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically, the role played by each trade component has not yet...

The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...

L'étude de trajectoires historiques de 15 cas montre que la stratégie agricole est encore influencée par les références au modèle dominant qui conditionne la vision du dirigeant et la difficulté managériale des diversifications. On constate néanmoins que les entreprenants parviennent à...

L'accompagnement des néo-ruraux porteurs de projet est confronté à la double problématique de l'insertion sociale et culturelle, et de la réussite économique de la création d'activité. La plupart des dispositifs ne sont pas adaptés à une telle atypicité, mêlant un projet de vie à la...