Agriculture in Martinique still occupies a specific place and role although the activity is declining. The weak contribution of export agriculture (traditional crops : banana and sugar cane) to development, raises concerns about diversification and food security and sketches the broad outlines...

Regionalization of policies is today a new reference for local public authorities, through contracts and definition by local actors of jointed development projects. In France, territorial projects in rural areas, are linked to many formalized devices. We study in this paper three territorial...

Industrial agriculture and its technological package (intensive farming, mechanization, use of chemicals) are no longer in position to ensure food security (Altieri et al., 2012). To overcome the strongly negative externalities produced by this model, agroecological transition may be considered...

Several assessments of vulnerability and resilience have been attempted at a country level through composite indices but they are barely in accord with a holistic view of sustainable development. We suggest graph theory to structure a network of variables that depict vulnerability and resilience...