Une petite rivière bucolique
1969 Septembre. Je suis depuis 2 jours à Madagascar. Mon premier séjour outre-mer après mes études d'entomologie à la faculté de...
Un café à Omdourman
Soudan 2004. Je visite le célèbre souk d’Omdourman, vieux quartier nord de Karthoum, où l’on trouve une étonnante variété de...
My locust swarm
May 1999. I'm coming back on an old article to give more details. I arrived in Madagascar sent by FAO (Food and agriculture Organization...
Invité par le calife du Kanem
1988, aéroport de Mao, au Tchad, à quelques dizaine de kilomètres au nord du lac. Aéroport est un bien grand mot pour une simple piste de...
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...
