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Denis Gautier

Geographer

Posting

• "Environments and Societies" Department
  
• "Forests and Societies" Research Unit
  
• Bobo-Dioulasso
• Burkina Faso

Discipline and activities

• Geography
• Political ecology
• Interface Nature / Society
  
• Vulnerability
• Adaptation to global changes

Address

• IRD
  01 BP 171
  Bobo-Dioulasso 01
  Burkina Faso
  

Phone/Mail

• Téléphone :+226 74 45 69 52; +33 6 48 11 72 48
• Adresse mail : denis.gautier@cirad.fr

Detailed job description and administrative responsibilities

Senior scientist, hired by CIRAD in 1999, working within a research unit focused on the goods and services provided by tropical forest ecosystems

Member of the scientific commitee of the Environments and Societies Department. 

Field of competences and area of expertise

Denis Gautier is a geographer with interests in the governance and management of natural and renewable resources in tropical dryland areas. Trained as an agronomist (SupAGro Montpellier), specialized in tropical forestry (ENGREF), he holds a PhD (Université d’Avignon) and a “habilitation à diriger des recherches” (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne) in geography.

Experience in researching

His research interests are the geographical analysis of natural resource management and practices, with a focus on the the rights of access to and use of natural resources and on territorialisation processes, and on the links between ecosystem resilience and the vulnerability of woodland product-dependent people.

Geographic areas of intervention

Drylands; Africa; Sudano-sahelian area; Bamiléké country

Teaching and training activities

• Supervision of 1 PhD
• Supervision of 2 post-docs
  

Participation in projects and expertise

• ACFAO (Forests and adaptation to climate change in West African drylands) (2011-2016)
• RELAX (Promoting resilience in the African rural houseolds: Food systems at a crossroads), funded by Agropolis fundation; leader of the WP on "Outside the farm. Finding sources of diet diversity in markets and nature" (2016-2019)
• SANTE (Agro-ecological transition and food security and nutrition), funded by GloFoodS a INRA/CIRAD metaprogram; coordinator (2017-2019)
  
• Expertise for Livelihoods venture (2016-2018)
  
• Expertise for the Luxembourg's cooperation: formulation for budgetary support to the Ministry of Environment and to the Ministry of animal resources for 2018-2022

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