I am doing development and environmental economics and my PhD has essentially been focused on the adaptation to climate change of the (mainly rainfed) Western African agricultural sector. Then, my research have been oriented towards land use / forestry, and deforestation in the tropics. It now aims at understanding better the interplay between conservation and poverty, in terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

I have been especially interested in weather events, their impacts and the design of weather index-based insurances with high density rainfall stations networks or remote sensing derived products. In this context, I tested the interest of rainfall indices applied to millet, maize and cotton productions, respectively in South West Niger, Burkina Faso and Northern Cameroon. I also studied cotton policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, looking for a supply side response to institutional reforms. Both topics are related since they try to understand how a lack of credit and insurance could hinder agricultural development and how to overcome this problem. he first try to fill this gap by understanding the lack of access to insurance (potentially allowing farmers to get credit at lower price and fostering technology adoption). The latter shows how coordination among actors in a cash crop market helps supplying input credit and hedging against international price variations. Beside environmental economics and the agricultural sector, I also have been interested in informal activities and the labour market, which was my first step into development economics. Regarding those issues I wrote 2 papers, the first on the French home services reform (master thesis in French , cf. academic work) and the endogenous impact of formal training in Senegal and Kenya manufacturings.

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