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...

La recherche publique agronomique au Cameroun, comme dans d'autres pays subit une baisse de ses financments structurels despuis une quizaine d'années. Pour combler cette perte de ressources, les chercheurs se tournent de plus en, plus vers les entreprises privées. Cet article interroge les...

In the Sudano-Sahelian region, which includes South Niger, the inter-annual variability of the rainy season is high and irrigation is scarce. As a consequence, bad rainy seasons have a massive impact on crop yield and regularly entail food crises. Traditional insurances based on crop damage...

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...

Les prospectives sur le changement climatique amplifient les risques déjà lourds qui pèsent sur les ressources hydriques et les capacités agricoles au sud de la Méditerranée. Ce papier analyse la portée méthodologique du concept de " commerce d'eau virtuelle " en quantifiant le contenu...