Climate change is affecting agriculture first and foremost, with particularly strong impacts in certain highly exposed territories. Just a few dozen kilometres from Montpellier, the Haut-Languedoc — a predominantly rural area covering nearly 1,900 km², stretching from the Orb valley in the north to Capestang in the south, and from the Lauragais plain in the […]
In an article published in the Swiss daily Le Temps , Sophie Thoyer, Research Director at INRAE (CEE-M) and a specialist in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), sheds light on the factors behind France’s opposition to the EU–Mercosur trade agreement. According to her, the European Commission has, overall, negotiated the agreement relatively well. “If we […]
Several French media outlets have recently reported on the findings of a study conducted by Léa Tardieu (UMR TETIS), Nicolas Mondolfo (UMR TETIS), Antoine Leblois (UMR CEE-M), and Philippe Delacote (UMR BETA), examining the environmental discrimination experienced by Travellers. The study was published in Nature Cities. The research has been featured in: Le Monde: “‘We […]
On February 14, 2025, Carla Morvan,, a post-doctoral researcher at CEE-M, was the guest on the A l’UM la Science” program entitled “Les mairies face aux catastrophes naturelles”. On this program, Carla presented her study on municipal budgetary responses to natural disasters, the results of which have been published in the Revue Économique. […]
Sophie Thoyer, INRAE research director at CEE-M, was a guest on the program “Le grand reportage” broadcast on France Culture on February 28, 2025. The title of the program was “Can Hauts-de-France get off pesticides?” The use of phytosanitary products, such as herbicide, insecticide, fungicide, is one of the biggest issues in French agriculture, particularly […]
The article co-authored by Sébastien Desbureaux and Antoine Leblois on public-private partnerships between governments and conservation NGOs for the management of protected areas has attracted the attention of several media outlets (all in French): Radio France Internationale (Questions d’Environnement): ‘How can we ensure that protected areas in Africa play their role properly?’, 8 January 2025, […]
Sophie Thoyer,, INRAE research director at CEE-M, was a guest on France Culture on 30 October 2024. The theme of the programme was ‘The crisis in agriculture: is the future in the meadow ? Together with François Purseigle and Thomas Borrel, Sophie Thoyer explains how we have moved on from a family farm model to a […]
In an interview with Médiapart, Camille Salesse, a doctoral student at the CEE-M, talks about the study he conducted, recently published in the CEE-M working paper series: ‘Camille Salesse, a doctoral student at the Centre d’économie de l’environnement in Montpellier, is preparing to publish in an academic journal an assessment of the effect of extreme […]
Directrice de recherche au CEE-M en économie agricole, spécialiste de la PAC, Sophie Thoyer is Research Director in Agricultural Economics at the CEE-M and a specialist in the CAP. She was invited by RCF Radio and the BSmart channel to explain the causes of this winter’s agricultural crisis. “Reforming agriculture: a challenge for society as a […]
COP28: the mirage of forest carbon credits “”Tropical forest countries are pleading for the payment of financial rents based on the mere fact of having forests on their territory”. Sébastien Desbureaux, INRAE Junior Chair and member of the CEE-M, sheds light on The situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an article published by […]