Girard Pierre
Cirad (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - France
Economist
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.