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To meet the needs of agricultural intensification, on which their standard of living depends, Thai smallholder farmers are increasingly using pesticides. From a quantitative and qualitative survey carried out in August 2019 among 100 farmers from two villages in Khon Kaen province, and from the results of large-scale blood testing by the Thailand's public health department, the author highlights the impact of pesticides on the health of petty farmers, as well as their perception of the health and environmental dangers to which the massive use of pesticides exposes them. The article also examines farmers' varied responses to government incentives for ecological transition. Finally, it reviews the responses that they provide to these incentives, depending on the regime of constraints to which they are subject, in a context of repeated climatic accidents with a strong impact on yields and very significant fluctuations in world prices of cash crops.
Keywords: pesticides, Thaïlande, agriculture, pesticides, Thailand, agriculture
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AbstractThis paper reconsiders prevailing analyses of the logic and dynamics of globalized neoliberal capitalism and its anti-globalization counterpart from the perspective of the relationship between the notions of “land” and “sacred”. Three assumptions frame the analysis and interpretation of these two alternatives, both theoretically and empirically: 1) the existence of a correlation between the degree of inequality inherent in a society's structures and their sacredness (Cosmao); 2) the constitutive role played by “land” in structuring relations to the Other (Dufour), or the ability to live together on the same land, and the perversion of this constitutive link under the aegis of a self-regulating market that transforms the tripartite relationship between man, the Other and the land into a binary relationship of competition and exclusion; 3) a correlation between the process whereby the mediating Third party becomes “sacralised” and the willingness to sacrifice the “Other”.
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Written by two philosophers of education, one is from Taiwan and the other from Europe, this study investigates the notion of confrontation by using the point of view of moral: is the confrontation a value deserved to be recognized or be required?
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The author points out and analyses five major trends which explain the event of socialist realism in Russia in the beginning of the thirties: 1) the diktat of the Stalinian regime, 2) the burden of traditions, 3) the existence of a new public issued from illiterary, 4) the fading out of the artistic avant- garde, 5) the renewal of realism in Europe. The study of these trends leads the author to infer that realism must be seen as a solution to the crisis of civilisation that endangered the western world since the beginning of the thirties.
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AbstractSituated in the alluvial plain of the Mekong river, Phnom Penh's city has to face up every year to an increasing risk of flood. So hydraulic infrastructures have to contain the rise of the water level and to drain off wastewater and rainwater. Their absence of maintenance under regime Khmer rouge threatened the permanence of the diked city. The appeal in international expertise, reinforced from 1992, allowed the reconstruction of networks and a better valuation of vagary by the reconstitution of series of data. But the most divested populations remain the most vulnerable in inundations, always recurrent in Phnom Penh.
Keywords: inondation, système hydraulique, digue, plaine alluviale, Mékong, Phnom Penh, flood, hydraulic system, dike, alluvial plain, Mekong river, Phnom Penh