Profile

Christophe Gironde is a political economist, currently working as a senior lecturer at the Graduate Institute. He received his PhD from the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (University of Geneva) in 2001. His thesis analyses the restoration and transformation of the household economy in rural Vietnam (1985-2000). His main domains for teaching and research are agrarian change, livelihoods and human development. He has extensive field research experience in rural Vietnam and Cambodia, and previously in the Republic of Congo and Burundi. Before joining the Institute in 2004, he worked as a researcher in Norway (Fafo, International Studies). His current research addresses transitions to agroecology (Ethiopia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, India, Bolivia), agricultural commercialization and their gender consequences on livelihoods and food security Cambodia), and land governance (Mekong Region)

COURSES TAUGHT

• Agrarian change and migration/mobility
• Développement, pauvreté et inégalité en Asie du Sud-est
• Migration, mobility and boundaries (Applied research projects)
• Mondes paysans: crises, persistances et innovations
• From emergency to development
   

Selected publications

Books

• J. Bourke-Martignoni, C. Gironde, C. Golay, E. Prügl, and D. Tsikata (Eds), Agricultural commercialisation, gender equality and the right to food: insights from Cambodia and Ghana, Abingdon UK, Routledge (forthcoming)
• C. Gironde and G. Carbonnier (Eds.), 2019, The ILO @ 100 - Addressing the Past and Future of Work and Social Protection, International Development Policy series No.11 (Geneva, Boston: Graduate Institute Publications, Brill-Nijhoff.
• C. Gironde, C. Golay and P. Messerli (eds), 2015, Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia, International Development  Policy series No.6, Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, Boston: Brill-Nijhoff
• F. Fortunel et C. Gironde (sous la direction de), 2014. L’Or Blanc. Petits et grands planteurs à l’épreuve du «boom» de l’hévéaculture. Regards croisés Viêt-nam-Cambodge, Bangkok: Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine; Carnets de l’IRASEC 24
• Le Vietnam à l’aube du XXIème siècle – Bilan et perspectives politiques, économiques et sociales, Christophe Gironde et Jean-Luc Maurer (sous la direction de), 2004, Paris : Karthala, Genève: IUHEI-IUED, 353 p.

Peer-reviewed articles

• A. Beban & C. Gironde (2023). Surviving cassava: smallholder farmer strategies for coping with market volatility in Cambodia. Journal of Land Use Science, 18(1), 109-127.
• Nguyen, A. T., Oya, C., Beban, A., Gironde, C., Cole, R., & Ehrensperger, A. (2023). Agricultural commercialization in the Mekong region: A meta-narrative review and policy implications. Journal of land use science, 18(1), 128-151.
• C. Gironde, F. Reysoo, A. Torrico Ramirez & Seng Suon (2021), No cash, no food. Gendered reorganization of livelihoods and food security in Cambodia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1960826
• G. Carbonnier et C. Gironde (2019), The ILO @ 100: in Search of Renewed Relevance. International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement 11 | 2019, DOI : 10.4000/poldev.2987
• C. Gironde et A. Torrico Ramirez (2019), Dépossession foncière, transition agraire et capacité d’adaptation. Devenir des populations autochtones de Ratanakiri (Cambodge), Revue internationale des études du développement, 2019/2 (N° 238), p. 291-322.
• Christophe Gironde et Olivier Tessier (2015) : Viêt Nam : les « nouveaux territoires » d’une modernisation inégalitaire, Hérodote, Les Enjeux Géopolitique du Viêt Nam, Paris : La Découverte, pp. 161-183.
• Christophe Gironde and Gilda Senties Portilla (2015), From Lagging Behind to Losing Ground: Cambodian and Laotian Household Economy and Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia, International Development Policy series No.6, Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, Boston: Brill-Nijhoff, pp. 172– 204.
• Christophe Gironde and Christophe Golay (2015), “Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Livelihoods and Human Rights in South-East Asia” in Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: Focus on South-East Asia, International Development Policy series No.6, Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, Boston: Brill-Nijhoff, pp. 275–292.
• Phi Van Evelyne Nguyên and Gironde Christophe (2010), Negotiating (In)dependency: Social Journeys of Vietnamese Women to Cambodia, Asian Journal of Social Science, 38: 930–944. DOI: 10.1163/156853110X5308133
• C. Gironde (2009), Réformes, croissance et augmentation des inégalités dans le delta du Fleuve Rouge (1980-2000), Moussons, 13-14: 269-308. URL : http://moussons.revues.org/1025
• C. Gironde (2008), Grandes réformes et petits arrangements dans les campagnes vietnamiennes, Autrepart, (numéro : Les mondes post-communistes – Quels capitalismes ? Quelles sociétés?), 48: 113-128. DOI 10.3917/autr.048.0113

Book chapters

• Martignoni, J.B., Gironde, C., Golay, C., Prügl, E., Reysoo, F. and Tsikata, D., 2022. Agricultural commercialization, gender equality, and the right to food. In Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food (pp. 1-22). Routledge.
• Gironde, C., Ramirez, A.T., Peeters, A. and Thida, K., 2022. From food crop to food shop. Agricultural commercialization, food security, and gender relations in Cambodia. In Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food (pp. 26-47). Routledge.
• Martignoni, J.B., Gironde, C., Golay, C., Prügl, E., Reysoo, F. and Tsikata, D., 2022. From the unequal harvests of commercialization to the right to food and gender equality: What roles for governments, agribusinesses, and rural communities?. In Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food (pp. 241-254). Routledge.
• C. Gironde (2019). Les espaces ruraux : une mise en valeur et une intégration renforcée. In L’Asie du Sud-Est. Une géographie régionale, Céline Pierdet et Éric Sarraute (Coordinateurs), Paris : Ellipses, pp. 143-153
• C. Gironde (2018). Le monde rural. In Histoire du Viêt Nam de la colonisation à nos jours, B. de Tréglodé (Editeur), Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, pp. 139-159
• C. Gironde (2018). Agrarian transition, adaptation and contained conflict in Cambodia and Vietnam since the 1990s. In Crisis and Conflict in the Agrarian World: An Evolving Dialectic, Zurayk R. Woertz E. and Bahn R. (eds), Oxfordshire: CABI Publishers, pp. 214-231
• C. Gironde et F. Fortunel (2014), Le ‘boom’ de l’hévéaculture au Cambodge : une conversion hasardeuse pour les petits producteurs autochtones de Ratanakiri, in L’Or Blanc. Petits et grands planteurs à l'épreuve du 'boom' de l’hévéaculture : regards croisés Viêt-Nam-Cambodge, Bangkok: Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), pp. 143-171.
• C. Gironde et B. de Tréglodé (2011), “Viêt Nam : une année à l’ombre du Congrès”, in L’Asie du Sud-Est 2011, Bangkok: Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), pp. 309-332.
• F. Fortunel et C. Gironde (2011), “Transitions agraires et recompositions sociales en Asie du Sud-Est”, in Dynamiques des espaces ruraux dans le monde, J. Guibert (Editeur), Paris: Armand Colin (collection U), pp. 215-235.
• C. Gironde (2009), “La croissance agricole et ses limites”, in Viet Nam Contemporain, Benoît de Tréglodé et Stéphane Dovert (sous la direction de), Paris: Les Indes Savantes et Bangkok: Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC), pp. 219-246.