La biotechnologie alliée ou concurrente de l'agriculture.

in La lettre de la Fondation Rurale de Wallonie (1985), (juin), 2-4

Biotechnologie et agriculture.

in Journal des Ingenieurs (1989), 31(3), 5-9

La biotechnologie, une alliée ou une concurrente de l’agro-alimentaire.

Article for general public (1999)

Biotechnologies : La production d’embryons in vivo dans l’espèce bovine

Learning material (2012)

Objectif général : Ce chapitre présente, sous forme chronologique, la séquence d’évènements hormonaux et zootechniques permettant la production, le transfert et la conservation à court ou long terme ... [more ▼]

Objectif général : Ce chapitre présente, sous forme chronologique, la séquence d’évènements hormonaux et zootechniques permettant la production, le transfert et la conservation à court ou long terme d’embryons obtenus in vivo chez la vache. Chacune de ces étapes fait l’objet d’une description et d’une revue des facteurs d’influence potentiels [less ▲]

Les biotechnologies au service des productions animales. Quelques exemples d'applications.

Conference (2004, May 21)

Les biotechnologies dans nos élevages: craintes et espoirs.

Learning material (1999)

Biotechnologies et coopération Sud-Sud : les défis liés aux OGM dans la politique brésilienne d’exportation de produits agricoles en Chine

in Etudes Internationales (n.d.)

In a context of growing liberalization, the trade of agricultural biotechnologies represents an opportunity for economic « catch-up » for emerging countries that have opened their economies and that are ... [more ▼]

In a context of growing liberalization, the trade of agricultural biotechnologies represents an opportunity for economic « catch-up » for emerging countries that have opened their economies and that are integrated into the world markets. Moreover, cooperating in the field of biotechnological innovation gives them a potential room for manoeuvre when coping with western powers. However, the regulatory confusion regarding this area poses a threat to South-South cooperation in making this innovation and its first fruits a strategic tool. Considering an alternative theoretical approach of power applied to the Sino-Brazilian partnership, this article focuses on the agribusiness sector and on the transgenic soya case in order to understand how China is building an asymmetrical interdependence between the Brazilian agricultural leader and the Chinese challenger. [less ▲]

Les biotechnologies vegetales appropriees dans le contexte du dialogue Nord-Sud.

in Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement = Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment [=BASE] (1999), 3(1),

Biotechnology, Controversy, and Policy: Challenges of the Bioeconomy in Latin America

in Technology in Society (2013)

This special issue explores cases from Latin American countries, studied in comparison to global trends in the arenas of public participation, scientific knowledge production, regulation and governance ... [more ▼]

This special issue explores cases from Latin American countries, studied in comparison to global trends in the arenas of public participation, scientific knowledge production, regulation and governance. The authors demonstrate the complexity of these cases, both in terms of regional differences and the different spaces of public, policy, and scientific knowledge production into which such innovations are inserted. The articles are based on rich empirical data collected in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay. Authors show that the top-down circulation of policy narratives on biotechnology is challenged, complemented and even partly undermined by local bottom-up dynamics. Conversely, articles also focus on those grassroots dynamics and the ways they are influenced and conditioned by macro-sociological and political economic factors. Lastly, a great deal of attention is paid to the ways states and national actors actively contribute to their own insertion in globalized markets where bioengineered living resources are increasingly tasked with solving the most pressing economic and social issues. We believe that this collection of works challenges scholars, intellectuals, policy-makers and relevant stakeholders to open up their views of biotechnology as a dynamic construct that interacts with local situations in a variety of ways. From a more distanced perspective, the aggregated findings of the contributors to this special issue suggest that the important tasks for scholarly work on bioeconomy today become (1) to observe and critically assess the de-localization and re-localization of the concept of bioeconomy in Latin America where biological resources have become increasingly strategic over the last decades; (2) to analyze the bioeconomy as a site of struggles among countries and/or social groups who articulate strategic visions as part of narrating activities. [less ▲]

Biotically constrained palaeoenvironmental conditions of a mid-Holocene intertidal lagoon on the southern shore of the Arabian Gulf: evidence associated with a whale skeleton at Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE

in Quaternary Science Reviews (2011), 30

Whale remains (a left and right mandible, scapula, humerus and fragmentary radius and ulna as well as parts of the cranium and rostrum) belonging to a probable humpback whale (Megaptera cf. novaeangliae ... [more ▼]

Whale remains (a left and right mandible, scapula, humerus and fragmentary radius and ulna as well as parts of the cranium and rostrum) belonging to a probable humpback whale (Megaptera cf. novaeangliae) were found in the well-described sabkha sequence exposed in the Musaffah Industrial Channel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. More precisely, the whale remains were found in a series of sediments representing a range of lagoonal facies. The sediments surrounding the whale bones were age-dated at approximately 5200 14C yrs BP and are herefore interpreted to correspond to the previously documented late Flandrian sea-level peak, receding a fall in sea-level which culminated in the supratidal sabkha overprint of the carbonates. associated with the whale remains is an assemblage of molluscs, foraminifera and ostracods. together with the inferred presence of sea grass and algae, these facies are interpreted to indicate a very shallow subtidal to intertidal lagoonal environment. Cirripede remains found associated with the skeleton were identified as those of the whale barnacle Coronula diadema and hence had their origins with the whale. Significantly, the low species diversity of microfossils suggests that higher salinities existed in the mid-Holocene lagoon than are present in modern counterparts. This is here inferred to be related to the onset of continental aridity in Arabia during the mid-Holocene. [less ▲]