Damien Jourdain

Senior Economist

Biography :

He is working with the UMR “Water Management, Uses, Actors” (G-EAU / CIRAD). Within this research unit, he is member of the teams PRECOS and Agro-ecological transition in the irrigated systems.

He is mainly interested in the economic instruments leading to a better governance of natural resources, especially water. He works closely with the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences of the University of Pretoria (UP).

Previously, he has been collaborating with the Asian Institute of Technology (2010-2017), the International Rice Research Institute in Vietnam (2006-2010) and the International Improvement Centre for Maize and Wheat in Mexico (1997-2002), and the United Nation Social and Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (1987-1995).

He holds a PhD in Agricultural, Food and Rural Development Economics from the University of Montpellier (2004), and an Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Economics from the University of Montpellier (2021).

His areas of expertise are:

Agro-environmental policies analysis
Sustainable Intensification (and how it can be promoted via public policies)
Analysis of choices and preferences (choice modeling)
Analysis of the diversity of views (Q-methodology)

Tools used :

Stated Preferences Social practices and perceptions Hybrid methods Experimental Economics

Published mainly with :

Olivier Barreteau Bruno Bonté Yvan Caballero Emmanuel Dubois Stefano Farolfi Cécile Hérivaux Philippe Le Coënt Julien Malard Marielle Montginoul Sylvie Morardet Noémie Neverre

contact : damien.jourdain@cirad.fr

HAL numerical identifier : 763130

Damien Jourdain

Biography :

Tools used :

Published mainly with :

14 PRECOS Productions

Preferences for index-based pasture insurance: a choice experiment in Limpopo Province, South Africa (2024)

The impact of a scholarship programme on social capital formation among university students: An economic experiment at the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2023)

Beliefs and preferences as predictors of prophylactic adherence and lockdown compliance in South Africa (2023)

A choice experiment approach to evaluate maize farmers' decision-making processes in Lao PDR (2022)

Identify Lao farmers' goals and their ranking using best–worst scaling experiment and scale–adjusted latent class models (2022)

Diverse stakeholder perspectives and ecosystem services ranking: Application of the Q-methodology to Hawane Dam and Nature Reserve in Eswatini (2022)

Analysing practices, social representations and behaviours of socio-hydro systems' actors (2022)

Farmers' preference for cropping systems and the development of sustainable intensification: a choice experiment approach (2020)

Water Quality and Water Related Ecosystem Services in the Olifants in South Africa: A qualitative approach (2020)

Context matters: Agronomic field monitoring and participatory research to identify criteria of farming system sustainability in South-East Asia (2020)