Biography

He is working with the UMR “Water Management, Uses, Actors” (G-EAU / CIRAD). Within this research unit, he is member of the teams PRECOS and Agro-ecological transition in the irrigated systems.

He is mainly interested in the economic instruments leading to a better governance of natural resources, especially water. He works closely with the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences of the University of Pretoria (UP).

Previously, he has been collaborating with the Asian Institute of Technology (2010-2017), the International Rice Research Institute in Vietnam (2006-2010) and the International Improvement Centre for Maize and Wheat in Mexico (1997-2002), and the United Nation Social and Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (1987-1995).

He holds a PhD in Agricultural, Food and Rural Development Economics from the University of Montpellier (2004), and an Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Economics from the University of Montpellier (2021).

His areas of expertise are:

• Agro-environmental policies analysis
• Sustainable Intensification (and how it can be promoted via public policies)
• Analysis of choices and preferences (choice modeling)
• Analysis of the diversity of views (Q-methodology)

Tools used

Social practices and perceptions , Stated Preferences , Hybrid methods

Publications

• Analysing practices, social representations and behaviours of socio-hydro systems' actors, 2022
• Identify Lao farmers' goals and their ranking using best–worst scaling experiment and scale–adjusted latent class models, 2022
• A choice experiment approach to evaluate maize farmers' decision-making processes in Lao PDR, 2022
• Diverse stakeholder perspectives and ecosystem services ranking: Application of the Q-methodology to Hawane Dam and Nature Reserve in Eswatini, 2022
• Farmers' preference for cropping systems and the development of sustainable intensification: a choice experiment approach, 2020
• Water Quality and Water Related Ecosystem Services in the Olifants in South Africa: A qualitative approach, 2020
• Context matters: Agronomic field monitoring and participatory research to identify criteria of farming system sustainability in South-East Asia, 2020
• Transboundary Water Resources for People and Nature: Challenges and Opportunities in the Olifants River Basin, 2019
• Urban consumer perceptions of food in Myanmar: between tradition and modernity, 2019
• Attributes determining consumer preference for organic rice in Bangkok, Thailand, 2018
• Society's preferences for Ecosystem Services from Irrigated Rice Areas: a case study in Northeast Thailand, 2018

Published mainly with

Juliette Lairez 4 ; François Affholder 3 ; Bruno Striffler 3 ; Thomas Hedemark Lundhede 2 ; Alisher Mirzabaev 2