Articles

• Soil ECological function REstoration to enhance agroABSYS services in rainfed rice cropping ABSYSs in agroecological transition
  29 April 2022

  Agriculture is at the heart of many international concerns and at the center of social, economic and environmental issues. This is particularly true for countries in sub-Saharan Africa like Madagascar where the majority of the population lives of agriculture, in great poverty. It is therefore urgent and necessary to transform agriculture to improve productivity, sustainability, food security and the standard of living of farmers. One of the paths to success is to ecologically and (...)

• Short documentary film: Gender, access to land and land policies in Madagascar.
  29 April 2022

  Based on the case of Madagascar, the film reviews the main findings and debates on access to land in Africa. It places the question of gender at the heart of the film, particularly the role of women in the management and appropriation of agricultural land. The literature indicates that in Africa, despite strong regional disparities, women’s access to land is generally less favourable than that of men (Doss et al. 2015, Chigbu 2019). Although women are important land users, the areas they (...)