This study focus on the survival strategies implemented in the marketgardening?s chain of Kinshasa (DR Congo). Conceptually, it questions the notions of social capital and adaptation, and integrates them into a capabilitybased framework of vulnerability. It thus makes it possible to define an...

Sorcerer Children is a new and growing phenomenon in Kinshasa. Children are accused of sorcery mainly by evangelist churches. Families believing in churches leaders are then convinced that their children are sorcerers. Children are then accused to be at the origin of all problems facing by...

This article contributes to the debate on the interaction between private property of renewable resources and sustainability as perceived through its agro-environmental and social dimensions. Based on a DRC example and using an analysis grid derived from the capabilities approach, the article...

Cet article se fonde sur l'évaluation des activités d'une association apportant un appui aux agriculteurs en difficulté de la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, une évaluation qui conduit à interroger la portée de la notion de résilience pour une analyse des difficultés en agriculture. Cette...

This article goes beyond the usual distinction between risk and uncertainty, thanks to a conceptual framework based on the capabilities approach. This framework explores the implications of a sequence associating risks, capabilities, vulnerability and resilience. Above all it makes it possible...

</titre> This article focuses on the conditions for a socially sustainable development around Lake Horo (Northern Mali), which concentrates a large and diverse population on its shores. This concentration leads to conflicts over access to natural resources. Rather than thinking in terms of "tragedy of...