Aim/Purpose This article uses the enrollment approach contained in the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to challenge the deterministic perspectives of doctoral socialization and offers a new perspective based on co-construction between social and technological entities mobilized during the do......

Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are the Fulani pastoralists responding to these threats to their existence......

The mobile phone has spread recently in rural Benin as one of the new technologies most widely adopted by Fulani pastoralists, who have generally been regarded as hostile to novelty. This article analyses the logic and forms of appropriation of mobile phones in connection with the socio-ec......

 L’exclusion financière limite la participation des femmes rurales au rayonnement économique de l’Afrique en général et du Bénin en particulier. Dans ce contexte, des fonds d’action ont été mis en place dans deux communes du Nord-Bénin (Banikoara et Nikki) dans le cadre d’une recherche-act......

The Livelihood Summer School, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and held from 22 – 26 September 2025 at the University of  Parakou in Benin, was conceived in response to the profound transformations occurring in agro-pastoral systems across Africa. It was organized by the Research Unit o......