Serge Svizzero
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 601043 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Serge Svizzero |
| PRENOMES | Serge |
| SOBRENOME | Svizzero |
| ASSINATURA | SVIZZERO S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de la Réunion |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3895-7273 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Impact of a Homegrown School-Feeding Intervention on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Low-Income Countries
The Homegrown School Feeding Program Intervention (HGSFPI) is one of the most powerful tools for combating malnutrition and addressing economic and gender inequality. Hence, this study aims to analyze the long-term effects of the HGSFPI on the school outcomes via balanced macro panel data covering the years 1974 to 2023. Panel endogenous switching regression (PESRM) and difference-in-differences (DID) models were used to estimate covariate relati…
The impact of home-grown economic reform intervention on crop productivity in Ethiopia
The present study aims to examine the impact of home-grown economic reform (HGER) program treatment on crop productivity in kilogram per hectare (CYKGHA1), utilizing balanced macro-panel data from 1974 to 2023 with 1300 total observations. The fixed effect and difference-in-differences (DID) models were employed sequentially to examine the relationship between variables and the parallel trend assumptions, while the synthetic control model (SCM) w…
The Outcrossing-Selfing Transition and Asian Rice Domestication
The protracted domestication of Asian rice is usually defined by the fixation of the domestication syndrome consisting of six main phenotypic traits having all an agronomic importance: seed retention, reduction of seed dispersal aids, increase in seed size, reduction of seed dormancy, a more compact growth habit, and synchronised flowering and ripening. However, during this initial domestication process the mating system of rice has also changed.…
How gathering wild rice under human-mediated drought stress could have inadvertently paved the way to Asian rice incipient domestication and cultivation
In eastern China, on the southern end of the Yangtze Valley, early Holocene hunter-gatherers were foraging various plants, including wild rice – Oryza rufipogon Griff. – an aquatic and perennial plant which is the wild progenitor of domesticated rice. According to optimal foraging theory, these foragers should have tried to enhance the efficiency of harvesting wild rice seeds by draining water around the plants before seeds ripened and shattered.…
Awn Reduction and the Domestication of Asian Rice
Socioeconomic Development and Changing Reasons for Using Desert Kites to Kill Gazelles
Possible reasons for using kites to kill gazelles are comprehensively reviewed in this article. Even though they are now well inventoried and documented, desert kites are still not well understood, as exemplified by the recurrent controversies about their function and dating. According to the dominant view, kites were hunting structures used to drive and to mass kill large herds of wild ungulates, particularly gazelles. Although kites were intens…
The Economic Rise and Fall of the Silesian Únĕtice Cultural Population
International audience
Persistent Controversies about the Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution describes the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and then to the onset of agrarian societies. This process, which relied mainly on the domestication of wild plants and animals, occurred independently in at least seven parts of the world from 10,000 BC. It is widely agreed that the shift from a total reliance on wild resources to the use of domesticated foods led to a number of fundamental and far-reaching ch…
The Ability in Antiquity of Some Agrarian Societies to Avoid the Malthusian Trap and Develop
This article presents a simple economic theory (and associated evidence) to explain how some early agriculturally based preindustrial societies developed despite most of their population being subject to Malthusian dynamics. Their development depended on a dominant class limiting its membership and extracting an economic surplus which it could use (among other things) to accumulate capital and advance knowledge thereby adding to this surplus. The…
The long-term decline in terms of trade and the neolithisation of Northern Europe
While agriculture spread quite rapidly from the Levant to most parts of Europe during the sixth millennium, its adoption was delayed to the fourth millennium in Northern Europe, an area inhabited by complex hunter-gatherers (HGs) – mainly the Ertebølle culture. This hiatus leads us to reject diffusion by migration or acculturation. It favours integrationist models of contact between foragers and farmers and attributes the shift to agriculture to …
Farmers’ spatial behaviour, demographic density dependence and the spread of Neolithic agriculture in Central Europe
Since the early 1970s, the demic diffusion model is the cornerstone of the migrationist approach of the European neolithization. It considers the latter as a slow, gradual and unintentionally process. During the last decade its relevance has been challenged by the observed variability of the spread, such as the extreme one exhibited by the LBK expansion in Central Europe. To account for it, migration - which is usually explained by exogenous push…
Trade, immiserising growth and the long-term neolithisation process of the Pitted Ware Culture
Inequality and Wealth Creation in Ancient History
The main purpose of this paper is to propose the hypothesis that inequality was essential for the sustainability and 'development' of early agriculturally based societies that developed in Prehistory and Ancient History. This was so for varied reasons: there was a need for some members of societies -the dominant class also called the elite -to escape from the Malthusian trap. In most cases, agriculture produced a bigger economic surplus eventuall…
Trade, immiserising growth and the long-term neolithisation process of the Pitted Ware Culture
Awn Reduction and the Domestication of Asian Rice
How gathering wild rice under human-mediated drought stress could have inadvertently paved the way to Asian rice incipient domestication and cultivation
In eastern China, on the southern end of the Yangtze Valley, early Holocene hunter-gatherers were foraging various plants, including wild rice – Oryza rufipogon Griff. – an aquatic and perennial plant which is the wild progenitor of domesticated rice. According to optimal foraging theory, these foragers should have tried to enhance the efficiency of harvesting wild rice seeds by draining water around the plants before seeds ripened and shattered.…
The Ability in Antiquity of Some Agrarian Societies to Avoid the Malthusian Trap and Develop
This article presents a simple economic theory (and associated evidence) to explain how some early agriculturally based preindustrial societies developed despite most of their population being subject to Malthusian dynamics. Their development depended on a dominant class limiting its membership and extracting an economic surplus which it could use (among other things) to accumulate capital and advance knowledge thereby adding to this surplus. The…
Inequality and Wealth Creation in Ancient History
The main purpose of this paper is to propose the hypothesis that inequality was essential for the sustainability and 'development' of early agriculturally based societies that developed in Prehistory and Ancient History. This was so for varied reasons: there was a need for some members of societies -the dominant class also called the elite -to escape from the Malthusian trap. In most cases, agriculture produced a bigger economic surplus eventuall…
The long-term decline in terms of trade and the neolithisation of Northern Europe
While agriculture spread quite rapidly from the Levant to most parts of Europe during the sixth millennium, its adoption was delayed to the fourth millennium in Northern Europe, an area inhabited by complex hunter-gatherers (HGs) – mainly the Ertebølle culture. This hiatus leads us to reject diffusion by migration or acculturation. It favours integrationist models of contact between foragers and farmers and attributes the shift to agriculture to …
Farmers’ spatial behaviour, demographic density dependence and the spread of Neolithic agriculture in Central Europe
Since the early 1970s, the demic diffusion model is the cornerstone of the migrationist approach of the European neolithization. It considers the latter as a slow, gradual and unintentionally process. During the last decade its relevance has been challenged by the observed variability of the spread, such as the extreme one exhibited by the LBK expansion in Central Europe. To account for it, migration - which is usually explained by exogenous push…
Trade, immiserising growth and the long-term neolithisation process of the Pitted Ware Culture
Persistent Controversies about the Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution describes the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and then to the onset of agrarian societies. This process, which relied mainly on the domestication of wild plants and animals, occurred independently in at least seven parts of the world from 10,000 BC. It is widely agreed that the shift from a total reliance on wild resources to the use of domesticated foods led to a number of fundamental and far-reaching ch…
The Ability in Antiquity of Some Agrarian Societies to Avoid the Malthusian Trap and Develop
This article presents a simple economic theory (and associated evidence) to explain how some early agriculturally based preindustrial societies developed despite most of their population being subject to Malthusian dynamics. Their development depended on a dominant class limiting its membership and extracting an economic surplus which it could use (among other things) to accumulate capital and advance knowledge thereby adding to this surplus. The…
Socioeconomic Development and Changing Reasons for Using Desert Kites to Kill Gazelles
Possible reasons for using kites to kill gazelles are comprehensively reviewed in this article. Even though they are now well inventoried and documented, desert kites are still not well understood, as exemplified by the recurrent controversies about their function and dating. According to the dominant view, kites were hunting structures used to drive and to mass kill large herds of wild ungulates, particularly gazelles. Although kites were intens…
The Economic Rise and Fall of the Silesian Únĕtice Cultural Population
International audience
Awn Reduction and the Domestication of Asian Rice
The Outcrossing-Selfing Transition and Asian Rice Domestication
The protracted domestication of Asian rice is usually defined by the fixation of the domestication syndrome consisting of six main phenotypic traits having all an agronomic importance: seed retention, reduction of seed dispersal aids, increase in seed size, reduction of seed dormancy, a more compact growth habit, and synchronised flowering and ripening. However, during this initial domestication process the mating system of rice has also changed.…
How gathering wild rice under human-mediated drought stress could have inadvertently paved the way to Asian rice incipient domestication and cultivation
In eastern China, on the southern end of the Yangtze Valley, early Holocene hunter-gatherers were foraging various plants, including wild rice – Oryza rufipogon Griff. – an aquatic and perennial plant which is the wild progenitor of domesticated rice. According to optimal foraging theory, these foragers should have tried to enhance the efficiency of harvesting wild rice seeds by draining water around the plants before seeds ripened and shattered.…
The impact of home-grown economic reform intervention on crop productivity in Ethiopia
The present study aims to examine the impact of home-grown economic reform (HGER) program treatment on crop productivity in kilogram per hectare (CYKGHA1), utilizing balanced macro-panel data from 1974 to 2023 with 1300 total observations. The fixed effect and difference-in-differences (DID) models were employed sequentially to examine the relationship between variables and the parallel trend assumptions, while the synthetic control model (SCM) w…
The Impact of a Homegrown School-Feeding Intervention on Children’s Educational Outcomes in Low-Income Countries
The Homegrown School Feeding Program Intervention (HGSFPI) is one of the most powerful tools for combating malnutrition and addressing economic and gender inequality. Hence, this study aims to analyze the long-term effects of the HGSFPI on the school outcomes via balanced macro panel data covering the years 1974 to 2023. Panel endogenous switching regression (PESRM) and difference-in-differences (DID) models were used to estimate covariate relati…
Agriculture (8 obras) · Ecology (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Population (6 obras) · Archaeology (5 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Demography (4 obras)