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Presentation-Debate

 
 

Gret, Karthala publications and Agence Française de Développement are pleased to invite you to attend a presentation-debate on two co-publications published by Karthala and Gret in March 2008:

"Jardins et rizières du Cambodge"

and

"La gestion concertée des ressources naturelles"

 
Wednesday 9 July 2008 at 5 p.m.
at Agence Française de Développement
5 rue Roland Barthes 75012 Paris
M° Gare de Lyon.

 

The session will be led by Philippe Lavigne-Delville, Scientific Director at Gret (Research and Technological Exchange Group) who supervised the two publications and by two of the authors Didier Pillot, an agronomist engineer, former director of Gret and Director of International Relations at SupAgro in Montpellier and Philippe Méral, an economist in charge of research at IRD (development research institute).   

 

Agenda: introduction, presentation of the book “Jardins et rizières du Cambodge” (Cambodia’s gardens and paddy fields), presentation of the book “La gestion concertée des ressources naturelles” (Concerted natural resource management) and a debate with the public until 6 p.m. The books will be on sale and a book signing will be organized.
 
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Jardins et rizières du Cambodge
Les enjeux du développement agricole

(Cambodia’s gardens and paddy fields, agricultural development issues)
 
Karthala – Gret  Co-publication published in February 2008 - ISBN 978-2-84586-843-4
Didier PILLOT
 

Cambodia began its reconstruction process twenty-five years after the Khmer Rouge era. The issue for the country’s ten million farmers is to what extent they will be instrumental in the development of tomorrow. Can agriculture be a real engine for progress in a more open, more competitive world? What kind of agriculture will it be? Will it be on the banks of the Mekong River fertilized by the river’s annual swelling? Or on the vast plains with their annual monsoon rice transplants? Or on the plateaus where commercial crops are rapidly expanding?

This book is based on extensive research carried out by Gret in Cambodia since the early 1990s which had not been available to the public or rural development professionals. Future possibilities are outlined by descriptions of the natural environment, integration into the regional economy, family farm structures, the main regional land systems and experiments in organization and development over the past years.

This 400 page book is widely illustrated with maps, diagrams and photos and presents original field data. It reviews the strengths and weaknesses of this agriculture at the dawn of the 21st century and provides an overview of all development potential. “Jardins et rizières du Cambodge” is a working tool for students and rural sector professionals and is also accessible to a wider public interested in Cambodia’s future. 

Didier Pillot is an agronomist engineer. His experience in development support concerns the technical and socio-economic aspects of family farming, particularly in the Caribbean and South-East Asia. He is a specialist in the technical, institutional and financial preparation of rural agriculture projects and rural training in developing countries. He is a field operator and has managed several research and development teams. He was Director of GRET from 1996 to 2001 and today coordinates a European Master’s in agricultural development.

Agris Mundus is Director of International Relations at SupAgro, the international center for higher education in agronomic science in Montpellier and is the author of several books on tropical agronomy and rural development.

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La gestion concertée des ressources naturelles :
L’épreuve du temps

 (Concerted natural resource management: the test of time) 

Co-publication  Gret – C3ED – Karthala published in March 2008 - ISBN 978-2-84586-967-7

supervised by
Philippe Méral, Christian Castellanet, Renaud Lapeyre

 
This book addresses problematics relating to the concerted management of natural resources and the environment. It is based on a selection of presentations made during the GECOREV symposium held at the University of Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, in June 2006. It aims to provide a forum for debate on concerted management using case studies made on various resources and ecosystems (forests, coastal regions, water resources…) on several continents (Europe, South America and Asia).

The interest of concerted management has been widely recognized for about ten years now. It has now been mainstreamed into a number of national policies and the bulk of environmental research and management projects and programs. Both the successes and limits of this approach can now be gauged. This is precisely the aim of the book. More specifically, it addresses the role of the State, local communities, decentralization and changes in national policies which sometimes comply with international injunctions.

Quite a considerable part of the end of the book is devoted to a debate between specialists from different backgrounds on community-based management and, more broadly, the local community: a key yet complex actor in natural resources and environmental management in rural areas in developing countries. It targets a public of researchers, decision-makers and representatives from civil society and is based on a whole host of experiences and viewpoints.

Contributors to the book: Ibrahima Aya, Éric Belvaux, Alain Billand, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Christian Castellanet, Ganga Ram Dahal, Denis Gautier, Laurent Gazull, Baptiste Hautdidier, Alain Karsenty, Fabienne Kervarec, Jean-François Kibler, Renaud Lapeyre, Bruno Lemery, Pierre-Yves Le Meur, Christophe Maldidier, Philippe Méral, Robert Nasi, Jean-Claude Nguiguiri, Omer Ntougou Ndoutoume, Naya Sharma Paudel, Manuelle Philippe, Juan Pulhin, Betty Queffelec, Jery Edson Rakotoarimanana, Claire Ruault, Thierry Ruf, Philippe Sablayrolles, Jean-Marc Sinnassamy.

Philippe Méral is an economist and is in charge of research at IRD, the development research institute.
Christian Castellanet is an agronomist and specialist in ecology. He is head of programs at GRET, (Research and Technological Exchange Group) and an associate professor (PAST) at C3ED.
Renaud Lapeyre is an economist and temporary lecturer and researcher at C3ED.