Antoine Castet

Antoine Castet

Postdoctoral researcher, AgroParisTech / CIRED

📧 antoine.castet@agroparistech.fr

📍 CIRED, 45bis Av. de la Belle Gabrielle, 94130 Nogent-sur-Marne, France

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About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at AgroParisTech in the Centre for International Research on Environment and Development (CIRED).

This CLAND-funded position, supervised by Thierry Brunelle, aims to analyze maize intensification in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa.

I am a lecturer at École Polytechnique and at Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies.

I defended my PhD thesis, supervised by Alain Desdoigts, in July 2025 at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

From 2023 to 2025, I was a teaching fellow (ATER) in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po Paris.

My research interests are primarily in development and agricultural economics.

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Research

Publications

• Heterogeneous impacts of large scale land acquisitions on child nutrition in the Global South, with Marc F. Müller et al. 
  Conditionnally accepted at at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on food security in Africa.
  World Development, 179, July 2024. PDF

• Food security and Covid-19: An analysis of the MENA region, with Racha Ramadan.
  Revue d’Économie du Développement, 33(3–4), 2023. PDF

Work in progress

• Climate Change and Gendered Structural Transformation in Africa, with Kibrom Abay and Martin Paul Jr.Tabe-Ojong.
  R & R at Journal of Development Economics.

• The conquest of the desert: Land investment in Egypt.
  Job Market Paper.

• The Economic Analysis of Maize Intensification, with Thierry Brunelle and Tristan Le Cotty.

• Do transportation costs drive fertilizer prices? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, with Thierry Brunelle and Tristan Le Cotty.

Book chapter

• Past, Present and Future of Food Security in Egypt, with Racha Ramadan, in Pathways to African Food Security: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities towards 2050), edited by Michiel de Haas, and Ken E. Giller, 2025. PDF

More details are available on the Research page.

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Education & Experience

Education

• Ph.D in Development economics, 2020–2025, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
  
• Master in Development economics, 2017–2019, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
  
• Bachelor in Economics, 2014–2017, Poitiers University

Experience

• Postdoctoral researcher at CIRED, 2025–
  
• Lecturer at École Polytechnique, 2026–
  
• Lecturer at Sorbonne Institute of Development Studies, 2026–
  
• Teaching fellow at Sciences Po Paris, 2023–2025
  
• Intern at International Food Policy Research Institute, 2023

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