Academic activities
Research Grants
Leadership position in the "Methanisation, Innovations and Ecological Territories" project (Meth’InTerE project) (2020-2022)
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.
Leadership position in the "Farmers' biogas production incomes project" (Metha'Revenus project) (2018-2020)
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.
Metha'Revenus project publications:
Grouiez P. (dir.), Berthe A., Fautras M., Issehnane S., 2020, Déterminants et mesure des revenus agricoles de la méthanisation et positionnement des agriculteurs dans la chaîne de valeur « biomasse-énergie », rapport scientifique pour le ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, 84 p., (Metha'Revenus project) avialable in French on the website of the French Department of Agriculture.
Berthe A., Grouiez P., Fautras M. "Heterogeneity of Agricultural Biogas Plants in France: a Sectoral System of Innovation Perspective", in Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, Forthcoming.
Grouiez P., "Une analyse de filière des dynamiques de revenus de la méthanisation agricole", in Notes et études socio-économiques, n°49, pp. 41-61.
Research team member of the ERC - "TARICA" (2016-2022). I analyze the effect of informal institutions, more precisely "Rotating savings and credit association" (ROSCA), on the farm boundaries and on the farmers' strategies regarding agricultural production and labor demand in Morocco.
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.
Editor
Editor in chief of the Revue "Economie Rurale" (since july 2021) - I was a member of the board of editors between july 2020 and july 2021
Member of the Board of Editors of the "Revue d'études comparatives est-ouest" (RECEO) (Journal Citation Reports®, Thomson Reuter) (septembre 2014-november 2020)
CommiTTE
Member appointed by the Ministry of Higher education and scientific research of the National Council of Universities (CNU 05), since 2020.
Refeering activities
Journal of Evolutionary Economics - JEEC (2023)
Ecological Economics (2022)
Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2022)
Review of Evolutionary Political Economics (2022)
Economic systems (2021)
Europe-Asia Studies (2021)
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (2021)
Revue Economie Rurale (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
Innovations (Revue d'économie et de management de l'innovation) (2020)
Développement Durable & Territoires (2020)
Revue de la Régulation (2018)
Revue Etudes Rurales (2018)
Natures, Sciences, Sociétés (2020)
Cahiers du Monde russe (2017)
SupervasiNG
PhD Thesis:
Co-supervisor of the PhD thesis of Alexis Grandjean (Topic: The emerging and development of agroholding model in Ukraine)
Thesis monitoring committee:
Jhons Vetsonafehy (Supervisor: Pr. Yorgos Rizopoulos), "Déterminants de la trajectoire des organisations de producteurs en milieu rural à Madagascar." (Determinants of the trajectory of producer organizations in rural areas in Madagascar). (since 2017)
Roman Medvedev (Supervisor: Pr. Julien Vercueil), "Les inégalités économiques territoriales entre Moscou et Saint Petersbourg." (Economic inequalities between Moscow and Saint Petersburg areas). (since 2019)
Alain Roux (Supervisor: phD. Nathalie Berta), "L’initiative 4 pour 1000 (Cop 21), lutte contre le réchauffement climatique et la sécurité alimentaire, par l’augmentation du stockage de carbone organique dans les sols naturels". ("4 per 1000" Initiative: fighting global warming and food insecurity by increasing the storage of organic carbon in soils). (since 2020)
Jeanne Cadiou (Supervisors: Pr. Jean-Marc Meynard & phD. Pierre-Marie Aubert), "enjeux socio-économiques et agro-environnementaux du développement du biogaz agricole" (socio-economic and agro-environmental issues of agricultural biogas production development), Inrae, Iddri. (since 2020).
VISITING PROFESSOR (2022)
I have been financially granted by my University (Université Paris Cité) and I have got a reserach leave (CRCT) from the National Council of Universities (CNU - 05) to visit for 6 months (january - june 2022) the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO). The institut is located in Halle (Saale) in Germany. During my stay in Halle, I worked with Frans Hermans on biogas production in Germany from an economics of innovation perspecitve (How the industrial history of a region affect the path development of technological innovation : the case of biogas unit technology) - see: work in progess description