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The objective of the Meth’InTerE project (Methanisation, Innovations and Ecological Territories), is to undertake an interdisciplinary approach associating researchers from the social sciences (economics, geography and political science) and experimental sciences (biology and chemistry) in order to identify the technological, economic, geographical and political levers to be activated in order to propose innovative solutions to the contradictions of French methanisation between the process of industrialisation and the maintenance of its green energy character.

This project is supported by the French Ministry of Agriculture. The topic is about the non-agricultural incomes of farmers, especially as far as concern the biogas production. The research team on biogas production (MeTSHS Network) works through a comparative approach project in France  on farm changes involved by the implementation of a biogas production. The team includes researchers from Ladyss (University of Paris), Lied (University of Paris), Regards (University of Reims) and Liries (University of Rennes II) Laboratories. 

Farmers are developing strategies that can take the shape of repositioning along the agro-industrial value chain or redefining agricultural activity to save money and develop productivity gains. These strategies reveal the importance of structural adjustments in stabilizing farmers' incomes. Another strategy, also of a structural nature, is to ensure the stability of household income through the development of non-agricultural activities. Among these non-agricultural activities, investment in a biogas production unit is developing today. The objectives of the Metha'Revenus ("Farmers' biogas production incomes") project are (1) to analyze the restructuring of the farm generated by the development of biogas production unit and (2) to measure the potential income from the biogas production unit. To achieve this, two operations are successively conducted. The first research operation identifies the agricultural and non-agricultural structural adjustments generated by the biogas production unit in order to account for changes in incomes. The second research operation evaluates the new incomes generated (agricultural and non-agricultural) through biogas production investment.

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The TARICA project aims at analyzing ongoing dynamics of change in North Africa, both as part of the process of dissemination, confrontation and hybridization of various political and societal models, and as resulting from their appropriation and reinterpretation by social actors. The purpose is to identify the factors and processes that make it possible (or prevent) the setting up of institutional arrangements able to manage social diversity, pluralism and conflicts, so as to avoid authoritarian restoration or civil war. Through this actor-centered approach, we seek to highlight the complex processes, which contribute to the diversity of the trajectories followed by five Northern African countries, directly or indirectly impacted by the “Arab revolts”, i.e. Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Libya, each of these countries, representing a case study or even a model per se. Drawing on a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, which also combines various levels of analysis, we will explore these processes through three complementary thematic entries: (i) the reconfiguration of the political space and the changing forms of political regulation, (ii) transitional justice and models of reconciliation, (iii) models of development and of social justice. 

“This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 695674)”. For more information, see ERC-TARICA website.

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