📧 antoine.castet@univ-paris1.fr
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at AgroParisTech in the Centre for International Research on Environment and Development (CIRED).Â
This CLAND-funded position, supervised by Thierry Brunelle, analyses maize intensification in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa.
My research interests are in development and agricultural economics.
Publications
The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on food security in Africa, World Development, volume 179, July 2024 [PDF]
Food security and Covid-19: An analysis of the MENA region, with Racha Ramadan. Revue d’Économie du Développement, volume 33, 2023/3-4
Working papers
Water scarcity shapes the impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child nutrition in the Global South, with Julie Faure, Leonardo Bertassello, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Sandra Eckert, Kyle Frankel Davis, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Paolo D’Odorico, Maria Cristina Rulli, Bhoktear Khan, and Marc F. Müller. Submitted.
Climate Change and Gendered Structural Transformation in Africa, with Kibrom Abay, and Martin Paul Jr.Tabe-Ojong.
The conquest of the desert: Land investment in Egypt. Job Market Paper.
Education
Ph.D in Development economics, 2020-2025
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Master in Development economics, 2017-2019
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Bachelor in Economics, 2014-2017
Poitiers University
Experience
Postdoctoral researcher at CIRED, 2025-2027
Teaching fellow at Sciences Po Paris, 2023-2025
Intern at International Food Policy Research Institute, 2023