This paper reviews the rise of geographic concentrations of small food-processing units in rural areas of Latin America, in order to show that, drawing on the literature on the development of clusters, they may represent a type of local productive system, namely Local Agri-food Systems....

La notion de Système agroalimentaire localisé (SYAL) est apparue, il y a une dizaine d'années, dans un contexte de crise des sociétés rurales, d'aggravation des problèmes environnementaux et des nouveaux défis alimentaires posés aux différentes sociétés des pays du Sud et du Nord,...

La notion de Système agroalimentaire localisé (SYAL) est apparue, il y a une dizaine d'années, dans un contexte de crise des sociétés rurales, d'aggravation des problèmes environnementaux et des nouveaux défis alimentaires posés aux différentes sociétés des pays du Sud et du Nord,...

La littérature montre que les exploitations agricoles des pays industrialisés se sont significativement agrandies durant la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle. Cet article s'intéresse aux facteurs influençant la croissance foncière des exploitations agricoles du sud-ouest de la France....

In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line with FDI. Hence the widely shared optimistic view about...

Environmental valuation "multi-stakeholder" processes, as advocated by ecological economics, often have a strong local character. Critical Natural Capital cannot be defined without referring to a given geographical scale, very often local in terms of the definition of the environmental resource...

Local environmental issues appear caught up in the rhetoric of planetary problems. Nevertheless, the unequal allocation of ecological strains can entail a specific idiosyncrasy of issues at the local level, which could combine with the idiosyncrasy of the local patterns of development. This...

The reference to the “win-win” character of sustainable development policies is ubiquitous and gets back to the seminal Bruntland definition. It is particularly common in biodiversity protected areas management debate, frequently associated with poverty alleviation in Southern countries This...

Environmental valuation "multi-stakeholder" processes, as advocated by ecological economics, often have a strong local character. Critical Natural Capital cannot be defined without referring to a given geographical scale, very often local in terms of the definition of the environmental resource...

Local environmental issues appear caught up in the rhetoric of planetary problems. Nevertheless, the unequal allocation of ecological strains can entail a specific idiosyncrasy of issues at the local level, which could combine with the idiosyncrasy of the local patterns of development. This...