Veronique Alary is agro-economist with a PhD in economics in the research unit on livestock systems in Mediterranean and tropical areas, CIRAD-SELMET. She has carried out research on household viability, risk management and vulnerability in rural areas over the last twenty years in several developing countries (Cameroon, India, Mali, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt). Her works mobilized different approaches and tools (empirical data collection, typology, programming model, and multicriteria approaches). She is involved in different research activities and projects on the socioeconomic contribution of the livestock activities in the household economy and the resilience of the agropastoral and rural societies.