Philippe Delacote - PhD Supervision

One of the research activities I value most is supervising PhD students.

Below, you’ll find details about the remarkable PhD students I have had the privilege to mentor, both past and present.

OnGoing PhDs

Tom Bry-Chevalier, Enjeux économiques de la viande cultivée comme technologie de rupture face au changement climatique, co-sup.: Romain Espinoza (CNRS, CIRED)
Marin Guinard, Economic analysis of agrivoltaic projects, co-sup: Jens Abildtrup (INRAE, BETA)
Tara L'Horty, Essais sur l'économie de la compensation carbone volontaire, co-sup.: Anna Creti (U. Paris Dauphine, PSL)
Laura Peralta, Access to land and deforestation in the post-conflict context of Colombia, co-sup.: Julien Jacob (U. de Strasbourg, BETA), Marie Boltz (U. de Strasbourg, BETA), Kenneth Houngbedji (IRD, DIAL)
Edouard Pignède, L'adaptation au changement climatique : Inégalités et vulnérabilités spatiales en zones rurales d'Afrique Sub-Saharienne, co-sup.: Raja Chakir (INRAE, PSAE), Julien Wolfersberger (AgroParisTech, PSAE)
Abdoul Latif Sokoundou, Commerce international et forêts: implications pour l'atténuation et l'adaptation au changement climatique, co-sup= Clément Nedoncelle (INRAE, PSAE)

Previous PhDs (chronological order)

Léa Crépin, Soy trade and imported deforestation, co-sup.: Julie Lochard (UPEC, ERUDITE) and Clément Nedoncelle (INRAE, PSAE), 2024
Jessica Meyer, Weather Shocks, Forests and Nutrition, co-sup.: Julie Lochard (UPEC, ERUDITE), 2024
Giulia Vaglietti, Weather Shocks and Land-Use Change, co-sup.: Antoine Leblois (INRAE, CEEM), 2024
Etienne Lorang, Circular economy, combining reduced resource use and climate change mitigation, co-sup.: Gilles Lafforgue (TBS), 2022
Derya Keles, Economics analysis of Protected Areas withdrawal, co-sup.: Alex Pfaff (Duke University), 2021
Miguel Rivière, Prospective analysis in the forest sector when facing environmental challenges: insights from large-scale bioeconomic modelling, co-sup.: Sylvain Caurla (INRAE, BETA), 2021
Thomas Beaussier, Evaluer les impacts environnementaux de scénarios prospectifs en ACV territoriale. Application à un territoire forestier, co-sup.: Véronique Bellon-Maurel (IRSTEA), 2020
Solène Masson, Three essays in environmental and development economics, co-sup.: Olivier Chanel (CNRS, GREQAM), 2020
Florian Claeys, Improving sustainability and profitability of tropical forest harvesting using economic incentive, co-sup.: Alain Karsenti (CIRAD), 2018
Paul Rougieux, Modélisation de la consommation et du commerce des produits forestiers en Europe dans un contexte de changement global, co-sup.: Olivier Damette (U. Lorraine, BETA), 2017
Benjamin Dequiedt, La réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans l'agriculture : une application au secteur des grandes cultures, co-sup.: Stéphane De Cara (INRAE, PSAE), 2016
Jonas N. Poofoun, Analyse socioéconomique et écologique des affectations des terres forestières dans le complexe transfrontalier TRIDOM - Bassin du Congo, co-sup.: Jens Abiltrup (INRAE, BETA), 2016
Julien Wolfersberger, The economics of forest transitions in developing countries, co-sup.: Serge Garcia (INRAE, BETA), 2015

Selected Publications from (actual and past) PhD students

2025

Biteau, C., Bry-Chevalier, T., Crummett, D. et al. Beyond the buzz: insect-based foods are unlikely to significantly reduce meat consumption. npj Sustain. Agric. 3, 35 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44264-025-00075-z
Biteau, C., Bry-Chevalier, T., Crummett, D. et al. Bugs in the system: the logic of insect farming research is flawed by unfounded assumptions. npj Sustain. Agric. 3, 9 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44264-024-00042-0
Pignède, Edouard. 2025. “ Who Carries the Burden of Climate Change? Heterogeneous Impact of Droughts in Sub-Saharan Africa.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12507

2024

Corentin Biteau, Tom Bry-Chevalier, Dustin Crummett, Ren Ryba, Michael St. Jules, Insect-based livestock feeds are unlikely to become economically viable in the near future, Food and Humanity, Volume 3, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foohum.2024.100383
Léa Crepin, Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the priority listing of municipalities, Ecological Economics, Volume 224, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108212.

2023

Derya Keles, Alexander Pfaff, and Michael B. Mascia, Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 2023 10:4, 1121-1147
Jessica Meyer, How do forests contribute to food security following a weather shock? Evidence from Malawi, World Development, Volume 169, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106307.

2022

Gilles Lafforgue and Etienne Lorang, 2022. Recycling under environmental, climate and resource constraints. Resource and Energy Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101278
Quentin Hoarau and Etienne Lorang, 2022. An assessment of the European regulation on battery recycling for electric vehicles. Energy Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112770
Peralta, L., 2022. Municipality Selection for Land Restitution in Colombia. Revue d’économie du développement, . 30(2), 177-183. https://doi.org/10.3917/edd.362.0177.

2021

Miguel Riviere, Sylvain Caurla, Landscape implications of managing forests for carbon sequestration, Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, Volume 94, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 70–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpaa015

2019

Thomas Beaussier, Sylvain Caurla, Véronique Bellon-Maurel, Eleonore Loiseau, Coupling economic models and environmental assessment methods to support regional policies: A critical review, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 216, 2019, Pages 408-421, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.020.
Florian Claeys et al 2019. Climate change would lead to a sharp acceleration of Central African forests dynamics by the end of the century, Environ. Res. Lett. 14 044002

2018

Rougieux, P., & Damette, O. (2018). Reassessing forest products demand functions in Europe using a panel cointegration approach. Applied Economics, 50(30), 3247–3270. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1420887

2015

Benjamin Dequiedt, Dominic Moran, The cost of emission mitigation by legume crops in French agriculture, Ecological Economics, Volume 110, 2015, Pages 51-60, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.12.006.