Antoine Castet

Postdoctoral researcher, AgroParisTech / CIRED

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

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 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.

Publications

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.

Working papers

Water scarcity shapes the impact of large-scale land acquisitions on child nutrition in the Global South, with Julie Faure et al. Submitted.
Climate Change and Gendered Structural Transformation in Africa, with Kibrom Abay and Martin Paul Jr.Tabe-Ojong. Submitted.
The conquest of the desert: Land investment in Egypt. Job Market Paper.

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.

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