Saved by donuts
2007, in Betioky-Sud, in the main street near the anti-locust center, I enjoyed a coffee and some donuts. In this small remote city of...
Quarter to Two before the revolution
In the margins of a FAO meeting in Tripoli, I make a break with a colleague in one of the magnificent chairs in a living room of our...
Hotel Mahasoa
2005 I'm in the courtyard of the hotel Mahasoa (pronounced "ma-a-chou-a") in Betioky, in the far south of Madagascar, 160 km from Tulear...
Hide-and-seek with the guerilla
In 1996 I just arrived at the CORPOICA research station, in Carimagua, in the Colombian llanos, extensive plains dedicated to pasture and...
Revolt in the deep south
The "Trano mena", the Red House, headquarter of the Centre for locust control, in Betioky, in the extreme south of Madagascar. It’s where...
Arrival in the Mossi country
1975, at the door of my new office within the Saria’s agricultural station. I have just landed in the Mossi country, in the heart of...
When the locusts’ DNA spoke
A swarm of locusts flying over the Cape Verde Islands. This photo was taken by my colleague Maurice Balmat in 1988, during an invasion....
El Niño and the locusts
I arrived in Indonesia for the first time in June 1998. Major riots in the capital had just ended and the flight making the connection...
Lost in the Iguidi erg
In 1989, along with several colleagues from CIRAD, we had to travel in the Tamesna, in the northern saharian Niger, to study habitats and...
Set ashore on a desert island
With a colleague from CIRAD, in 1982, we are (left photo) in front of our refugee tent (lent to us by the local Red Cross), which will be...
