Virginie DIAZ PEDREGAL

Career

  • Virginie Diaz Pedregal holds a PhD in political sociology and a master’s degree equivalent in social science from the University Paris 5-Sorbonne. After having carried out research on fair trade in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, she conducted post-doctoral research in expatriation in Vietnam on behalf of Cirad (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development). She went on to work for two years for the scientific department of Gret (French solidarity and international cooperation association). Virginie joined AFD’s Research Department in June 2010 where she is in charge of supervising the Department’s research and training in sociology, anthropology and political science. She also contributes to the Institutions, Governance and Long-term Growth Programme.

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Research Work

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  • Virginie DIAZ PEDREGAL

    Main publications:
    - Franck Galtier, Virginie Diaz Pedregal, 2010, « Le développement du commerce équitable peut-il conduire à une réduction des injustices ? Une réflexion à partir du cas du café », Cahiers Agricultures, Vol. 19, n° 1, pp. 50-57. Full text available online
    - Aurore Duffau, Virginie Diaz Pedregal, 2009, “Micro Health Insurance and Public Health Policy. To What Extent Does Non Profit Private Micro Health Insurance Contribute To Improving Public Health Care?”, FACTS (Field Action Science) Reports, Vol. 3, n° 1. Full text available online
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, Nguyễn Ngọc Luân, 2009, “Is Fresh Milk Powdered Milk? The Controversy Over Packaged Milk in Vietnam”, in: Adam Lindgreen, Martin K. Hingley, Joëlle Vanhamme (dir.), The Crisis of Food Brands: Sustaining Safe, Innovative and Competitive Food Supply, United Kingdom, Gower Publishing, pp. 65-85.
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, May 2009, “Just Certification”, Ethics Economics / Ethique Economique, Aurélie Carimentrand and Denis Requier-Desjardins (guest editors), vol. 6, n° 2, 19 p. Full text available online
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, 2008, « Le consommateur vietnamien face à la mondialisation des échanges : un consommateur-sujet ou citoyen ? », in: Geneviève Parent (dir.), Production et consommation durables : de la gouvernance au consommateur-citoyen, Canada, éd. Yvon Blais, pp. 467-488.
    - Amina Béji-Bécheur, Virginie Diaz Pedregal, Nil Ozcaglar-Toulouse, March 2008, “Fair Trade–Just How Fair are the Exchanges?”, Journal of Macromarketing, Special issue on “Marketing Ethics and Distributive Justice”, Vol. 28, n° 1, pp. 44-52. Summary available online
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, 2008, « Le commerce équitable : une économie non économiciste ? », in: Ivan Sainsaulieu (dir.), Par-delà l’économicisme. La querelle des primats de l’économique et du social, Paris, L’Harmattan, pp. 133-145.
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, Muriel Figuié, 2008, “Consumer protection in Vietnam”, Vietnamese Studies, Thê Gioi Publishers, Vietnam, 44th year, n°1-2 (167-168), pp. 170-175.
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, 2007, Le commerce équitable dans la France contemporaine. Idéologies et pratiques, preface by Alain Caillé, Paris, L’Harmattan, collection Logiques Sociales.
    - Virginie Diaz Pedregal, 2006, Commerce équitable et organisations de producteurs. Le cas des caféiculteurs andins au Pérou, en Équateur et en Bolivie, preface by Dominique Desjeux, Paris, L’Harmattan, collection Logiques Sociales.
     

    Ongoing research:

    Role of governance and institutions in development
    Analysis of development as a non-linear process of institutional transformation.
    Development of a methodology for quantitative and qualitative institutional analysis which can be integrated into standard risk analyses.
     
    Training supervision
    Aporde training session (African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics): high-level training in development economics for academics, high-level civil servants and civil society stakeholders (NGOs, trade unions and private sector) from developing countries.
     “Tam Dao Summer School” training: training in methodologies for social science analysis (economics, geography, socio-anthropology, history, statistics…) for students, professors and researchers from Vietnam and Southeast Asia.