CASID / ACÉDI

Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

Anthropologue
Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan est professeur (directeur d'études) à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, et directeur de recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). Il vit et travaille au Niger, où il est un des membres fondateurs du LASDEL, une structure de recherche en sciences sociales qui regroupe une vingtaine de chercheurs béninois et nigériens autour de l'étude empirique, par des méthodes qualitatives de type socio-anthropologique, des diverses formes de délivrance et de gestion des services et biens collectifs ou publics.

Développement, modes de gouvernance et normes pratiques (une approche socio-anthropologique)
L'étude empirique des modes de délivrance des biens et services publics et collectifs en Afrique par diverses institutions, révèle des écarts importants entre la gouvernance officielle et la «gouvernance réelle »: la compréhension des normes pratiques qui régulent les comportements des acteurs concernés devient alors un programme de recherche, qui peut permettre aussi de poser de façon nouvelle le problème des réformes «vues de l'intérieur ».

Camilla Toulmin

Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED), having formerly run the Drylands Programme from 1987-2002. An economist by training, her work has focused on social, economic, and environmental development in dryland Africa. This has combined field research, policy analysis, capacity building and advocacy, with strategic management of the programme. It has involved engaging with people at many different levels from farmers and researchers, to national governments, NGOs, donor agencies and international bodies.

Climate Change in Africa
Climate change is a major challenge focus all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat and will hit the poorest hardest.

Camilla Toulmin will talk about a range of threats and opportunities from natural disasters to biofuels; from conflict to the oil industry and asks what future there might be for Africa in carbon-constrained world.

Bina Agarwal

BINA AGARWAL is Director and Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Delhi she has held distinguished positions at many universities in the USA and UK and lectured world-wide. She was Harvard's first Daniel Ingalls Visiting Professor and a research fellow at the Ash Institute, Kennedy School of Government. She has taught at Delhi, Harvard, Michigan (Ann Arbor), and the University of Minnesota where she held the Winton Chair. She has also been Vice-President of the International Economic Association, was elected the first Southern President of the International Association for Feminist Economics, served on the Board of the Global Development Network from its inception till 2006, and is a founder member of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics. Currently she serves on the UN Committee for Development Policy and the Prime Minister's National Council for Land Reforms. She is also a member of the editorial boards of several international academic journals.

Gender and forest conservation: The impact of women's participation in community forest governance
Economists studying environmental collective action and governance have paid little attention to gender, while research on gender and the environment in other disciplines has focused mainly on women's near absence from such governance institutions. Bina Agarwal's recent work reverses the focus by examining the impact of women's presence in community forestry institutions. A central question she explores is: would enhancing women's presence in such institutions improve forest conservation and regeneration?