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International audience ; This paper highlights the status of women as well as their involvement in the activities related to market gardening in Benin. The data collected in this study come from two main sources. The first part of the data was collected from some vegetable producers cooperatives through semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Information gathering was conducted from north to south of Benin on nine different research sites with leaders of 54 producer associations through interviews. these groups were chosen in a reasoned way, ensuring that they are composed of both women and men. The second part of the data was obtained from the directions of the human resources departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and completed by those obtained from the Ministry of Public Labor. The descriptive statistics were performed with the SPSS software. The discourse analysis was utilized as a method of analysis of all the information gathered from both producer groups that government institutions. This paper came out that women are involved in farmers associations as well as government institutions in connection with the agricultural sector. Although it is obvious, they are not sufficiently represented as men in these different entities and are not really involved in decision making processes. It is therefore imperative to bridge the gap between men and women in agriculture generally and market gardening especially. To this end, it is significant to develop policies and a regulatory framework to fight gender inequality. This will ensure equal access to resources, and the same support through agricultural programs and projects. In turn, this will improve women membership to farmers associations and their representativeness in government institutions.

International audience ; In Benin Republic, teak sector is the most active among the wood markets with a strong national demand. It is therefore necessary to improve its efficiency. This study aimed at modelling the perception and economic performance of teak plant production in some rural nurseries. To this end, a survey was conducted among 140 teak nurseries in northern, central and southern regions of Benin using the "snowball" sampling method. In terviews organized with plant nurserymen served to gather data on their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, plant production techniques, production costs and output, and teak production perception. The perception of producers and the performance of teak plant production were modeled respectively from a logistic regression model and then from a linear regression model. The analysis of the results showed that the age of the nurseryman, unlike variables such as gender and seniority in production, negatively influences the economic performance of teak plant production. Household size also influences the economic performance of teak plant production and the perception of the nurseryman, but with a negative effect on the last variable. Nevertheless, the number of years of schooling and the nurseryman's assessment of the distance between the plant nursery and his home has a positive influence on his perception. Policies development aimed at improving the production of teak plants in Benin would therefore require particular attention to these different determinants.

International audience ; The paper aims to characterize forms of contracting in the cashew sector in Collines' Department of Benin. For this purpose, data were collected through 270 producers and 122 buyers (contractors and non-contractors) was randomly selected in research area. Statistical analysis has shown that most contracts are informal and are based mostly on informal, intermediate and multi-stakeholder models. Associated with these models, the types of contracts identified and most practiced are: the orchard maintenance contract signed by the producers; direct contact between Producer's Organization and buyers practiced by buyers in the research area. In fact, individuals (48.4%) and collectors (29%) opt for the informal model and producers (66.7%) for the multi-party contract model. In addition, contract Kg prices (548.87 FCFA / kg at production link level and 586.81 FCFA / kg at the level of the marketing link) are lower than non-contract Kg prices. Thus, it is necessary to study the existing business links between the actors involved in such contractual procedures in order to balance the relationship between the actors. ; Cet article a pour objectif de caractériser les formes de contractualisation dans la filière anacarde au Bénin. A cet effet, des données ont été collectées auprès de 270 producteurs et 122 acheteurs (contractants et non contractants) choisis de façon aléatoire et raisonnée. L'analyse statistique des données a montré que les contrats sont en majorité de nature informelle et sont basés le plus sur les modèles informels, intermédiaire et multipartites. Associés à ces modèles, les types de contrat identifiés et les plus pratiqués sont : le contrat d'entretien des vergers signé par les producteurs ; le contrat de mise en relation directe entre les Organisations de Producteurs (OP) et acheteurs pratiqué par les acheteurs. En effet, les particuliers (48,4 %) ainsi que les collecteurs (29 %) optent en majorité pour le modèle informel et les producteurs (66,7 %) pour le modèle de contrat ...