Center for International Agricultural Research for Development

Markets, Organisations, Institutions & stakeholders strategies

Last update: 20 September 2012

The UMR MOISA examines issues relating to operators’ strategies, either private or public, individual (consumers) or collective (social market or non-market production groups), their internal (companies) or external (vertical and horizontal coordination) organisation structure and the operations of the institutions (markets, regulations) as they apply to agricultural, agribusiness and rural systems in Mediterranean and tropical zones.

The researchers, lecturers/researchers and Ph.D. students at the UMR MOISA are brought together around the complementary scientific approaches and common research objectives of several social science teams from the different establishments in Montpellier: Ciheam-IAMM , Cirad, Inra and Montpellier SupAgro. The research is conducted within an umbrella programme dealing with the global issue of the “Governance of sustainable development of agribusiness systems in Mediterranean and tropical countries”

This approach is guided by a triple objective:

  • Scientific : development of knowledge in the theoretical fields of the social sciences concerned (economics, management, sociology, socio-anthropology, political sciences).
  • Operational : understanding mechanisms to improve decision-making aids and assessment methods. Many researchers and lecturers/researchers at the UMR are also called upon to perform assessments for public authorities, international organisations, professional organisations and local authorities.
  • Pedagogic : education through research for post-graduate students. Consequently, the UMR actively participates in the research master’s degree in the “Economics and Management of Agricultural, Agribusiness and Rural Development” (EGDAAR), subsequently renamed “Agriculture, Food and Sustainable Development (A2D2) ”, jointly awarded by the University of Montpellier I and Montpellier SupAgro.

Webpage of UMR MOISA - English

UMR MOISA is a SPOP partner

Emmanuelle Cheyns, 41 years, is researcher in social sciences and member of MOISA research unit. She has been involved in research on food quality perception by consumers in African cities, the impacts of liberalisation in the oil palm value chain in Côte d'Ivoire, forms of participation and negociation between stakeholders involved in sustainable voluntary standards, and the inclusion of minority voices in the elaboration of global standards.
Emmanuelle Cheyns
Marcel Djama is a senior research fellow at CIRAD and is now currently based in Malaysia at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies (Universiti Putra Malaysia). Marcel received his PhD in Social Sciences from the “Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales” (Paris) in 1995. Since that, he has been involved in academic research, teaching, expertise and research management projects, in the field of politics and development studies. His research interests are centred on regimes of governing, globalization and social change. His current work explores the rhetoric of global governance and the new technologies of power related to it. Besides his research with SPOP, he is currently coordinating a research programme on the roles of multistakeholder standards initiatives for global environmental change mitigation.
Marcel Djama

Pierre-Marie

Pierre-Marie Bosc is a Senior Researcher at CIRAD in Montpellier, France. After coordinating several collective reviews on the contribution of agronomic research to innovation and development processes in Sub Saharan Africa, his research aimed at a better understanding of the nature and roles of Rural Producers’ Organizations in development. He participated in the revision of World Bank Rural Development Strategy (2001-02) and in World Development Report 2008 on these issues.  His thesis, published in 2005, explores the conditions allowing a farmers’ organization to improve the management of natural resources under customary rules [A la croisée des pouvoirs, Une organisation paysanne face à la gestion des ressources, IRD-Cirad]. With others, he conceived (1998) and directed (2002-2005) a research program called “Family agriculture and globalization”. He initiated and is now fully involved as Scientific coordinator of the World Agriculture Watch (WAW) International Initiative (FAO, IFAD, France) to monitor the structural transformations of agricultures in order to feed policy debates.

Pierre-Marie Bosc

Last update: 20 September 2012