Hubert CochetAgro-economist and geographer, Hubert Cochet specializes in agrarian systems and their evolution, as well as the study of the impact of development policies and projects on their dynamics. He first worked in Mexico from 1984 to 1989 (INA-PG/IRD doctoal thesis in Comparative Agriculture), before devoting his work to the Andean countries and sub-Saharan Africa (Burundi where he stayed from 1990 to 1993, then Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone) and southern (South Africa), then to Ukraine. He has been authorized to direct research since 2000 in human, economic and regional geography (Paris X Nanterre University). He is now Professor of Comparative Agriculture at AgroParisTech where he works as a teacher-researcher in the Comparative Agriculture and Agricultural Development Training and Research Unit. His current work focuses in particular on the comparative approach of agrarian dynamics in several countries of the North and the South in connection with the land issue and that of "production models" firm agriculture versus family agriculture. Read More Read Less