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Working with CIRAD since 2001, I am based in Montpellier, France since mid 2020.
My main areas of interest are: standards and certification systems and their impact on value chains and stakeholders in developing countries; smallholder access to markets; agricultural value chains, cross-border trade and frontier areas.
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April 2011 - present
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September 1990 - December 2000
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The expansion of commercial agriculture is one of the primary drivers of livelihood and land-use changes in the world. Globalisation and other factors have intensified this expansion to the point where booms in single cash crops overtake entire regions before going bust, a pattern that is particularly pervasive in resource frontiers. Using case stu...
Intensive maize cultivation in the uplands of North-west Vietnam has resulted in soil erosion leading to reduced maize yields along with negative impacts downstream. Despite the introduction of sustainable agricultural technologies over many years, adoption rates are low mostly due to their incompatibility with existing farming systems and lack of...
This study is part of the “Improving livelihoods in Myanmar and Vietnam through vegetable value chains” project (AGB/2014/035) funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). This report is the product of the collaborative efforts and valuable contributions from international and local partners. It was written by th...
Ordered lines of rubber that tower over a red, dirt road. Rolling hills of maize that locals have dubbed ‘bald mountains’ as far as the eye can see. Valleys and foothills blanketed with banana, cassava, and watermelon fields. These images characterise the changing rural landscapes of mainland Southeast Asia, where a mosaic of rice, upland gardens,...
This poster has been done within the framework of the Lao Uplands Initiative (LUI) that was initiated between November 2017 and June 2018. The LUI had 3 folded objectives: 1/ Take stock of knowledge about green growth in the Lao Uplands: opportunities and challenges; 2/ Develop a common vision for the future that would feed policy processes (new po...
This document summarizes the main results of the Lao Uplands Initiative, a knowledge capitalization process that took place over a six-month period under the umbrella of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lao PDR. As the Lao Uplands are under high pressure for change, competing visions for development of the Lao Uplands prevail.
The ov...
This document summarizes the main results of the Lao Uplands Initiative, a knowledge capitalization process that took place under the umbrella of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lao PDR. As the Lao Uplands are under high pressure for change, competing visions for development of the Lao Uplands prevail. The overarching question the L...
The main tasks of the mission are:
1. Rapid assessment of the coffee value chain, with a specific focus on:
a. Family farms, their constraints and operation;
b. Value chain stakeholders (collectors, plantations, producer organizations, exporters,
etc.);
c. Business relationships/modes of coordination between the stakeholders;
2. Quick survey of cof...
International standards result from global policies formulated primarily to address issues on food safety, traceability, environmental impact as well as social accountability. As in other agro-food industries, these rules increasingly regulate aquaculture, especially since it has started to be the object of many criticisms. The standards are genera...
The aim of this report is to analyse the rubber value-chain in Tanintharyi Region (Myanmar), and provide recommendations to improve the sustainability of rubber production. Tanintharyi Region was selected as the key area of focus due to its role as a major rubber producing area in Myanmar, representing 20% of the country’s rubber farmers. The regio...
3rd International Conference on Public Policy will take place at the National University of Singapore from Wednesday 28th June to Friday 30th June 2017.
Call for abstracts
T16P10 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Revisiting Health and Environmental Public Policies at (and for) the Margins in Southeast Asia
The purpose of this panel is to explore, thro...
Geographical indications (GIs)—i.e. indications identifying goods
originating in a specific place and having quality, characteristics,
and reputation attributable to their geographical origin—are developing
fast in the Southeast Asian food sector, with a wide range
of new products such as Khao Hom Mali and Thung Kula Rong-Hai
(fragrant rice), Kampo...
The consumer awareness survey on organic food product was conducted in 2015. The objective of the study was to understand the current perceptions and attitudes of end-users (e.g. consumers, traders, restaurants) towards organic food in the Lao PDR. Seven principal provinces of Laos where the organic food is dominated were chosen as target sites of...
La certification, quoique difficile et coûteuse, pourrait être dans certains cas une opportunité pour les petits agriculteurs, mais qu’en est-il réellement ? A Madagascar, au milieu des années 2000, le standard privé GlobalGAP a émergé dans la filière litchi en raison d’une demande de litchis certifiés de la part des importateurs européens. Toutefo...
Le standard privé GlobalGAP a émergé dans la filière litchi de Madagascar au milieu des années 2000 en raison d’une demande de litchis certifiés de la part des importateurs européens. Toutefois, après une courte période d’engouement, le nombre de producteurs a rapidement chuté suite au retrait des bailleurs. Nous exploitons une expérience naturelle...
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The private standard GlobalGap was introduced into Madagascar’s lychee value chain in the mid-2000s in response to the demand for certified lychees. Following the initial craze, however, the number of certified farmers soon dropped as the financial support to the exporters dried up. Based on a natural experiment, we assess the impact of GlobalGap c...
Les certifications environnementales et sociales ont connu au cours des dernières années un développement rapide dans le commerce international du café. Alors que de nombreuses études appréhendent les effets de ces certifications sur les producteurs, peu d'analyses s'intéressent directement aux rôles que jouent les organisations de producteurs (OP)...
Coffee in the jungle of environmental and social sustainability standards Sustainability standards are flooding global agricultural markets. Such standards however, are not recent: standards for the exchange of grain and tropical products emerged in the 19th century. The objective of this article is to analyse, in a historical perspective, the impl...
It has only been a few years since the private standard GlobalGap has been introduced in the Malagasy lychee value chain. Since the year 2005, under pressure from some European importers, many exporters have chosen to intensify relations with small-scale farmers and have assisted them in achieving GlobalGap certification. Indeed, in contrast with c...
Certification that aims to differentiate between products on the basis of values such as environmental friendliness and fairness flourishes in global markets. Among these standards, we focus on fair trade and organic agriculture. Using the framework of global value chain analysis, this article assesses the distribution of value within the conventio...
Sustainability standards are flooding global agricultural markets. Standards, however, are not new. This article analyses, from a historical perspective, the implications of the transition from traditional to sustainability standards in the commoditisation/de-commoditisation process. It shows how early standards contributed to the construction of t...
Madagascar has a tradition of agricultural trade (coffee, vanilla, cloves). In the 90s, the country started developing non-traditional exports, such as lychees, to the European Union (EU), thereby generating substantial cash revenues for small producers. In 2005, access to the EU market became more difficult, due to more stringent quality requireme...
Rising consumer interest for ethical and/or responsible products and the growing interweaving of social and environmental issues question the ability of scientific methods to correctly assess social impacts. To this day however, no consensus has yet been reached on relevant indicators to assess social impacts. In this article, we try to identify co...
High-value export-oriented agriculture is today considered as a means of integrating smallholders into the world economy. This paper examines the geographic and organisational changes that have taken place in the fresh pineapple sector over the past 50Â years. We begin with a historical analysis of the changes in leadership among producer countries...
Promoters of urban and peri-urban agriculture generally stress its positive role in terms of food security, income, employment and improvement of the urban environment. Unfortunately, competition with agricultural and non-agricultural uses of peri-urban farm land often translates into intensive farming systems that are detrimental to the environmen...
The growing consumer popularity and economic value of sustainability standards inevitably raise questions about the extent to which they actually address many environmental, economic and public welfare issues - particularly at the producer and community levels. Any credible measure of systems such as organic, fair trade, or the many newer public an...
The growing economic value and consumer popularity of sustainability standards inevitably raise questions about the extent to which their structure and dynamics actually address many environmental, economic and public welfare issues. The Committee on Sustainable Assessment (COSA) was formed, in part, to develop a scientifically credible framework c...
Au Vietnam, depuis que l'Etat s'est retiré des marchés de produits alimentaires, se pose de manière cruciale la question de la performance économique des marchés privés et du rôle des pouvoirs publics dans leur régulation. L'étude de l'approvisionnement de Hanoi en légumes frais remet en question l'idée communément admise selon laquelle ces marchés...
A close examination of the organisation of the clothing industry in Thailand exhibits a rather paradoxical situation: although the structural features of the sector - the breaking down of the production process, high labour intensity, low asset specificity, low skilled labour - seem to legitimate a market co-ordination mechanism, it is a close, dur...
