In 2009, yam production was 50 million tons all over the world (FAO, 2009). It is the main food crop in Guadeloupe and the fourth crop after sugar cane, banana and melon (Chambre d’Agriculture, 2009), all threes targeting the European market in majority. One priority and objective of...

Agriculture provides many ecosystem services such as food, fiber, clean water, and sequestration of carbon. The efficiency of such ecosystem services depends on crop composition and farmer decisions. Current knowledge on landscape changes is focused on crop allocation process at farm scale and...

Face à la multiplication des pressions économiques, sociales et environnementales s’exerçant sur la production de banane aux Antilles françaises, la durabilité des exploitations bananières est remise en cause. Pour améliorer cette situation, les organisations de producteurs ont...

The achievement of sustainable agriculture, economically viable, socially equitable, environmentally sound and capable of providing sufficient amounts of food in both quantity and quality for a population is a major challenge of agricultural research. In Guadeloupe, a French overseas territory...

L’igname est aujourd’hui cultivée sur une surface de 5 millions d’hectares dans le monde et représente une production de 54 millions de tonnes (FAO, 2010). En Guadeloupe, elle occupe la 4° place après la canne à sucre, la banane et le melon et représente la première culture...

Nowadays, consumers are more and more concerned about the traceability of the food they purchase. As a response to this phenomenon, labels have flourished highlighting the environmental impact of products for some, their nutritive characteristics or their origin for others. In this context, we...