Biography:

Claire Aubron is a professor at l’Institut Agro Montpellier in France, working on the place of livestock farming in agrarian systems and agrarian change, within the SELMET research unit. She is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Ulm and graduate of AgroParisTech. She did her PhD in Comparative Agriculture on the development of dairy farming in the Peruvian Andes. She has a strong interest in the role played by livestock farming in the development processes involving smallholder farms. Since her 18-month mobility stay in India in 2014, she has led two successive projects (IndiaMilk) on the trade-offs between increasing milk production, social inclusion and environmental impact in Indian dairy farming. She is currently developing research on the transition towards organic and natural farming in two Indian states (Sikkim and Andhra Pradesh, IndiaBio).

Seminar:

“Milk and Dairy in India’s Development Path: Lessons, challenges and perspectives”. Final seminar of the “IndiaMilk” project, Dec 2019, New Delhi.

Publications:

• Aubron Claire, Bainville Sébastien, Philippon Olivier, Dorin Bruno, 2022. Neither corporate, nor family: the Indian “patronal” farm,  Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems..
• Fischer Chloé, Aubron Claire, Trouvé Aurélie, Sekhar Muddu, Ruiz Laurent, 2022. Groundwater irrigation reduces overall poverty but increases socioeconomic vulnerability in a semiarid region of southern India. Scientific Reports 12, 1–16.
• Vigne Mathieu, Dorin Bruno, Aubron Claire, 2022. Is feeding the Indian dairy cow sustainable? A tentative multiscalar answer. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 20, 140–152.
• Aubron Claire, Vigne Mathieu, Philippon Olivier, Lucas Corentin, Lesens Pierre, Upton Spencer, Salgado Paulo, Ruiz Laurent, 2021. Nitrogen metabolism of an Indian village based on the comparative agriculture approach: How characterizing social diversity was essential for understanding crop-livestock integration. Agricultural Systems 193.
• Aubron Claire, Lehoux Hugo, Lucas Corentin, 2015. Poverty and inequality in rural India: Reflections based on two agrarian system analyses in the state of Gujarat. EchoGéo, 32.