more about the speakers

Hostiou Nathalie

Nathalie Hostiou is a researcher at INRAE, with a PhD on animal sciences. She carries out researches on labour in livestock farming systems in different countries in the North and the South (Asia, South America, Africa). She studies changes in farmers’ work organization and working conditions due to the adoption of agroecological practices or precision livestock farming. She is involved in the animation of several research groups of researchers on work in agriculture.

Bakker Teatske

Teatske Bakker is a systemic agronomist, whose research focuses on work in agriculture and work in smallscale family farms, and this leads her to explore topics such as agricultural mechanization, work organization, gender and youth roles in agriculture, and technical cropping issues such as weed management. She works at CIRAD and is currently based at the University of Parakou, Benin.

Dzanku Fred

Fred Dzanku is a development economist whose research focuses principally on the economics of household behavior in sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana. Fred’s current research areas include the impact evaluation of projects, ex ante evaluation of biotechnology, household welfare and poverty reduction analysis.

Girard Pierre

Pierre Girard holds a PhD in Economics from the Univeristy of Montpellier (France). He works at CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development and posted at ISSER (UG Ghana). His research interests is on structural change in rural change in relation with employment issues. He especially focuses on the agricultural development models that can provide decent jobs to people, the role of agroecology, bionenergies and mechanization in transforming farming systems and territories, and rural-urban linkages.

Alemayehu Merkuriaw

PhD in Public Health is a terminal research-based degree with diversified course of study that makes me independent researcher. With this capacity, I can be employed in Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations that are working to solve the public health problem. I have specialized in infectious disease epidemiology of public health issue that had been resulted five publications of the dissertation entitled “Health related quality of life in co-infection of human immunodeficiency virus and Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northwest Ethiopia: Implication to healthcare strategy and interventions”. Overall, I have more than 60 publications in peer reviewed reputable journals.

Gyapong Adwoa Yeboah

Dr Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong is a consultant and an independent researcher with a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research examines the political economy of resources, focusing on land, labour, and food. She has frequently co-facilitated the NELGA short course on the Political Economy of Land Governance in Africa, and is a member of the editorial team for the Feminist Africa Journal. With over ten years of experience in international development consultancy, Adwoa has supported project and policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and public sector governance initiatives across various African countries, including Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

Geza Wendy

Wendy Geza is a postdoc at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Transformative Agricultural and Food Systems in South Africa. Her research focuses on understanding the role of youth in transforming food systems under climate change. Her interests include youth inclusion in food systems, socio-economic transformation, food systems research and food policy analysis. Through her work, she aims to contribute to transdisciplinary research and development that supports capacity building, inclusion, and equity in the food systems for marginalised people.

Professor Sraïri Mohamed Taher

Main research fields - Animal production systems’ (cattle, camels, sheep, etc.) performances in Morocco - Assessing crop/livestock coupling performances - Use of resources (capital, land, water and work) in complex agricultural systems More than 75 articles published in peer-reviewed journals

Enderly Géraldine

Géraldine Enderli is an engineer specialised in the production, processing and analysis of data and survey at INRAE, in the research unit LISIS (an interdisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to the study of science and innovation in societies). She is a member of the unit’s Cortext platform team. Cortext platform, headed by Lionel Villard, is an infrastructure designed to support researches in the Humanities and Social Sciences, by providing access to data and analysis methods (https://www.cortext.net/). A major part of the methods produced by the platform is made available within the collaborative web application called Cortext Manager, which is freely accessible and used by a large community worldwide. The application is designed to facilitate the use of computational methods and is particularly suited for the mining, analysis and exploitation of text corpora for studies on the dynamics of science, technology, innovation and knowledge production (https://docs.cortext.net/).

Sourisseau Jean Michel

He is deputy director of the joint research unit "Actors, Resources and Territories for Development" (ART-Dev). Multifunctionality of agriculture and diversity of family farming around the world are recurring themes he undertakes, implementing finalized research. He is CIRAD’s focal point on Family Farming. He participates actively to the UN decade of Family Farming, launched in Rome in April 2019. Recently, his researches focus on agriculture intensification pathways in the face of Sub-Saharan Africa demographic challenges, articulating household approaches and territorial perspective in Mali, Madagascar, Togo and Burkina Faso.

DEDIEU Benoit

Benoît Dedieu is Director of Research at INRAE (French National Research Institute for agriculture, food and the environment). He has conducted research into the ways in which livestock farming systems adapt (management choices, practices and performance), taking into account changes in the economic (demand from sectors, price volatility) and environmental (extensification, agro-ecology, climate variability) contexts, as well as the socio-structural dynamics of farms (expansion, reorganisation of the workforce). In particular, it has studied how technical choices integrate the preservation of adaptive capacities to short-term hazards and long-term uncertainty, as well as several aspects of farmers' work (productivity, duration, organisation, personal well-being). This research was carried out in close collaboration with the Institut de l'Elevage and professional partners. The main areas of study have been grassland and mountain areas in France, but also South America (Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil), and recently Africa. Since its creation in 2017, he has chaired the International Association on Work in Agriculture and organised two international symposia on the topic (2016, 2021).

benoit.dedieu@inrae.fr