Pierre Girard holds a PhD in Economics from the Univeristy of Montpellier (France). He works at CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, whose mandate is to produce and disseminate knowledge and innovations and contribute to capacity building in support of agricultural development in the Global South. Pierre Girard has been posted to ISSER since mid-2023. Before obtaining his PhD, he worked in international development in many African countries with a focus on supporting farmers’organization. His research interests are on structural change in rural change in relation with employment issues. He especially focuses on the agricultural development models that can provide decent jobs to people, the role of agroecology, bionenergies and mechanization in transforming farming systems and territories, and rural-urban linkages.
Research Areas
- Structural change in rural areas
- Labour
- Youth transition
- Agroecology
- Household survey
- Multivariate analysis