(Associate Researcher since December 2017 – present)

Biography:

Claire Aubron is 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. 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 has then developed research on agroecology and its deployment across different regions of India (Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka), in the framework of three research projects (IndiaBio, TransIndianDairy and SOSPA-India).

Seminar:

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

Publications:

• Bainville, S., Aubron, C., Philippon, O., 2025. Workload and remuneration on farms in the south of France: The uncertain future of agroecology. Journal of Rural Studies 116.
• Bainville, S., Aubron, C., Dervillé, M., Philippon, O., 2025. L’État indien du Sikkim est-il vraiment « devenu » 100 % bio ? The Conversation, mai 2025.
• Aubron, C., Bainville, S., Philippon, O., 2023. Livestock Farming in Indian Agrarian Change: Does it Benefit the Poor? Revue internationale des études du développement 189–224.
• Aubron C., Bainville S., Philippon O. and Dorin B., 2022. Neither corporate, nor family: the Indian “patronal” farm. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
• Fischer, C., Aubron, C., Trouvé, A., Sekhar, M., Ruiz, L., 2022. Groundwater irrigation reduces overall poverty but increases socioeconomic vulnerability in a semiarid region of southern India. Scientific Reports 12, 1–16.