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• 30 oct 2015

  Call for papers - Africa

  Youth in rural Africa

  Journal Afrique Contemporaine

  This special issue of Afrique Contemporaine will analyze the living conditions of rural African youth – family life, economic situation, and path to adulthood and independence. Among all young rural Africans, this edition will pay particular attention to young farmers: their means of land and knowledge acquisition, and the new agricultural practices they pursue, among other subjects. Increasingly educated and connected rural African youth use all available resources – familial, cooperative, governmental – to build their future in agriculture or in other sectors.

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• 29 oct 2015

  Béja

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Farming systems’ crises, food insecurity and peasant resistance

  Which ways for an authentic sustainable development?

  The food issue keeps feeding concern and controversy. Rightly since the fate of a large fraction of humankind is at stake: the number of people suffering from hunger has exceeded one billion in 2009, which is intolerable, in spite of its slow current reduction. Nowadays speculating about the population growth is rather outdated, since it is practically admitted that the Earth will reach a maximum of ten billion people in the course of this century. The actual question is how to ensure a decent food supply to all of this population, on account of resources that are indeed globally limited and above all most unequally distributed. The current crisis of farming systems throughout the world is a ransom for centuries of collective irresponsibility.

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