PSE Chaired Professor
Economics for everybody : Improved seeds and deforestation by Sylvie Lambert
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In many countries of the Global South, rural populations must choose between preserving their environment and ensuring their livelihoods. Shifting agriculture, widely practiced in the Congo Basin, leads to concerning deforestation, yet it remains essential for the survival of millions of families. How can agricultural production be balanced with the protection of tropical forests?
Inspired by Sylvie Lambert’s research on the impact of modern seeds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this new comic strip illustrates the dilemma faced by many Congolese farmers.
Sylvie Lambert is a chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics and a senior researcher at the INRAE. Her research themes focus on household economics and economics of the family; rural households’ production choices, poverty and well-being. She works mainly in the sub-Saharan African context, where she collected several household surveys. In the first field of research, she studies fertility choices, fostering and marital trajectories, as well as intra-household allocation of resources. In the second, she evaluates new agricultural technologies (improved seeds) and their impact on production choices, nutrition and poverty.