[eng] Pierre Janin — Does Africa amount to no more than its violence ? . Africa is frequently stigmatised for its ills and excesses. For the keen observer that S. Smith is, the continent confirms this peculiar difference by unleashing multiple forms of violence. Thus yielding to the prevailing...

[eng] Kako Nubupko and Pierre Janin — Incertitudes and « grain games » in West Africa : What policy lessons ?. Studies on food insecurity in West Africa are still often based on deterministic or accounting presumptions whereby the role of actors, the logics of action and the perceptions, or...

[eng] Pierre Janin — Spatiotemporal management of food supply in Burkinabé Sahel.. Sahel zones are marked by food risks (unavailability, insufficiency, fluctuation, inaccessibility). One of the difficulties for researchers and decision makers consists of assessing this risk in time and in...

[eng] Pierre Janin and Charles-Edouard de Suremain. — The food question in Africa : risk and politisation. Introduction.. Without pretending to a systematic comparison, this study examines the risks involved in the management of food in several African countries. The articles expose the gap...

Studies on food insecurity in West Africa are still often based on deterministic or accounting presumptions whereby the role of actors, the logics of action and the perceptions, or even the sociohistorical contexts, appear to be minimised. In this text, we attempt, using the theoretical...