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"Food security, jobs, ecological transition of agricultural production models and consumption patterns... Agroecology could be one of the solutions to meet the future challenges of humanity. Part of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it requires a lasting commitment from all of us. To meet the food and economic needs of growing rural and urban communities, fulfil increasingly demanding consumer requirements, conserve natural resources and adapt to climate change, we have to find new ways of agricultural production. Over the last decade, CIRAD and AFD have conducted experiments in agroecological transitions with farmers, researchers, development agents and policymakers in many countries of the Global South. In this book, they reflect on the future of agroecology as a way for agriculture in the developing world to adapt to global changes and they examine the conditions necessary for a successful agroecological transition."

Africa --- agronomy --- sustainable development --- public policy --- ecology --- breeding --- banana --- environment --- cocoa --- culture system --- forest --- landscape

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This book, through its clear explanatory text and admirable illustrations, skilfully lays out the elements of good practice in tropical beekeeping. It explains both traditional techniques using low-cost hives and more advanced methods, pointing out the most appropriate system for the level of investment the beekeeper wishes to make. Existing beekeepers wishing to improve their techniques and those looking to start a new beekeeping enterprise will find the book invaluable.

Africa --- food --- insect --- transformation technique --- entomology --- bee

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Producer organisations are very numerous and active in the farming modernisation process in southern developing countries. This didactic work analyses the advantage of the partnership with producer organisations, how they can be strengthened and their relations with the environment. The questions are made extremely accessible and are illustrated by numerous examples in the southern countries.

economics,trade,sustainable development,economic development

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Les bananes à cuire et plantain sont des productionscruciales des pays des zones tropicales humides. Très énergétiques (110 à 120cal/100 g), riches en éléments minéraux et en vitamines, ces aliments répondentaux enjeux de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnels. Les régions forestièresd'Afrique, d'Amérique latine et d'Asie en produisent 30 millions de tonnes paran (près de 70 % en Afrique) et la consommation moyenne est de 50 à 200kg/hab./an. Conduite le plus souvent dans des modes de production d'agriculturefamiliale, la majeure partie de la production est autoconsommée ou venduelocalement, sous forme de mets très variés, mais peu de produits transforméssont disponibles sur les marchés. Des entrepreneurs investissent dans laproduction de plantain pour l'export vers les États-Unis et l'Europe et pourdes filières orientées vers la fabrication de farines. La multiplicité desusages et la capacité d'adaptation du plantain à des zones agroclimatiquesdiverses sont des atouts de cette filière. Cet ouvrage se réfère plus particulièrement auxrecherches et aux productions d'Afrique subsaharienne. Clair, concis et bienillustré, il présente un état des connaissances et des innovations disponiblessur la culture du bananier plantain, ainsi que les atouts et les contraintes decette filière. Diffuser les avancées techniques et scientifiques, et intéresserles entrepreneurs et les industriels, d'une part, les agriculteurs et lesprofessionnels, d'autre part, constituent les enjeux du développement de lafilière du plantain.

Afrique,agriculture,agronomie,alimentation,banane,botanique,économie,filière,marché,production végétale

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Based on abundant literature, Benoit Daviron sketches for us a long, economic and political history of the biomass. Farming is not just about providing food, nor is it alone in supplying the biomass. How, before and after the fossil energies, have European societies mastered the distance and mobilised the work to satisfy their growing needs? What consequences for the rest of the world? Over the years, we discover that the ability to mobilise energy and material, especially living beings, mirrors wealth and power in the leading country of the time. This book alters our queries about the future.

Agriculture --- biomass --- economy --- energy --- history --- market