The globalisation of the market for basic consumer goods, speculation, and the success of biofuels production all underlie a recent return to the international agenda of the issues of food security, food sovereignty and the right to food. In 2008, the ‘high cost of living’ phenomenon sparked...

</titre> This article introduces the volume dedicated to popular initiatives of international solidarity setting up by citizens in Belgium, in France as in Netherlands. The author underlines a set of stakes which represents the emergence of these initiatives for the international cooperation, in...

The notion of civil society, although regularly criticized, occupies an important place in the politics of development today. The author here aims at formulating certain reflections allowing approaching the study of the non-western civil societies under the angle of projects at the junction of...