Eve Fouilleux
Senior Research Director at the French CNRS
Eve Fouilleux is a Senior Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS), University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, and an Associated researcher at the Center for International Research for Agriculture for Development (Cirad), UMR MoISA, Montpellier Interdisciplinary research Center on Sustainable Afrifood systems. She is a political scientist working on global and multilevel policies and politics in the field of food, agriculture and natural resources. She works on public policies and policy-making, through a political sociology perspective, with a special focus on the role of ideas in policy changes in a multilevel governance context. One of her main research question regards how globalisation reshapes the conditions and dynamics of public policy debates. She has published extensively on the European common agricultural policy, on food security policies in Africa, on organic agriculture policies and regulations in France and the EU, on global policies (food security, biodiversity, sustainability voluntary standards, bioeconomy). For some years, her empirical research is mainly focused on organic farming and agroecology policies. She is scientific co-coordinator of a research action project on institutional innovations for organic agriculture in Tanzania, Uganda and Morocco.
