Can we debunk climate migration myths? COMPAS Seminar Series on Climate Migration, Oxford, UK [online] (January 2022) Durand-Delacre, D., Farbotko, C., Froehlich, C. and Boas, I. (2020, October 7 th) Climate Migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/climate-migration-what-the-research-shows-is-very-different-from-the-alarmist-headlines-146905 En 2014, United Biscuits, dont Delacre, est acquis pour près de 2,6 milliards de dollars par Yildiz, une importante entreprise agroalimentaire turque [6 ]. Prize for Best Overall Performance in the MSc Environment & Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (2014)

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Advisor, Advisory board for an NGO-led study on ‘Environmental Migrations and Social Movements’. Coordinated by the CRID for the Des Ponts pas des Murs collective (2020 – 2021). THE RELATIONSHIP WITH YILDIZ – Delacre’s acquisition seems to strengthen the link between Ferrero and Turkish Yildiz Holding. Ferrero, in fact, is the Mc Vitie’s biscuits’ (the most important Pladis’ brand) distributor in Italy. In Ferrero’s latest balance sheet, Mc Vitie’s performance in Italy was defined “ positive” by the Italian company managers. Migrations climatiques: une idée qui bouge, PhD workshop with policy-makers, Cité de la Solidaire Internationale, Annemasse, France [online] (November 2020) In contrast to most prior studies of climate migration that have examined climate migration discourses in international fora, my analysis starts at the national level, in France. My focus is on elite stakeholders – civil servants, politicians, NGO representatives, journalists, and other researchers – who grapple with what climate migration is, and what should be done about it. In the analysis, I triangulate information gathered from interviews with an analysis of documents produced and cited by stakeholders and a corpus-driven analysis of news media coverage.

Italian confectionery giant Ferrero has announced the completion of its deal to buy Belgian luxury biscuit brand Delacre from UK-based Pladis.

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Histoire [ modifier | modifier le code ] Affiche d' Henri Privat-Livemont (1896). Jeune garçon mangeant un Délichoc, un produit de Delacre, en 1989. Lietaer, S., & Durand-Delacre, D. (2021). Situating ‘migration as adaptation’ discourse and appraising its relevance to Senegal’s development sector. Environmental Science & Policy, 126, 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.09.008 If Ferrero can expand Delacre’s presence geographically and within the alternative retail channel, including retail stores, foodservice and online, it has a good chance of boosting its already profitable business. ​ UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Paris. Associate (07/2016 – 07/2017). Previously: Analyst (03/2015 – 06/2016). The acquisition aims to move the Italian confectioner into the premium biscuit sector and reduce its reliance on chocolate products.

Member, Environmental and Ethical Affairs Committee, Darwin College Student Association (2018 – 2019) Ferrero’s acquisition could prove to be a good, strategic move by the premium chocolate maker, claimed Euromonitor International. The deal could result in more chocolate manufacturers looking to break into the biscuit market, it said. Ferrero said today it has completed the acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, of Delacre and Délichoc biscuit brands. Both brands were formerly owned by United Biscuits before it was absorbed into the wider Pladis confectionery group after UB was acquired by Turkish food group Yildiz in 2014. My broader research interests include knowledge production and circulation (“epistemic mobilities”); critical migration studies; environmental mobilities; science and technology studies; media analysis; and methodological innovations for the study of im/mobilities. Publications Peer-reviewed Delacre’s acquisition could, in turn, prompt competitors – like Lindt, Mars and even Nestlé – to explore the premium biscuit space, which is more widely consumed than chocolate and proves especially popular with emerging market consumers.”​Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Durand-Delacre, D., and Teksoz, K. (2016) Sustainable Development Goals Index and Dashboards – Global Report. New York: Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). http://www.sdgindex.org/ As part of the transaction, Ferrero will take over all production facilities as well as retain the management and the employees of the businesses. Rather than seeking to provide definite answers about what climate migration is, or even how we should talk about it, my PhD thesis examines how other people react when confronted with these analytical and political questions. I map, trace, and explain the different ways in which other people answer them. How do they know what climate migration is? What are the processes of knowledge production and dissemination that people use to make sense of climate migration, what modes of representation, what political frameworks? On a theoretical level, I define this approach as a study of the “epistemic mobilities” of climate migration. I describe an unstable and fragmented stakeholder network marked by persistent tensions. On the one hand, climate migration is seen as a self-evidently real phenomenon requiring a response. On the other, and in a political context marked by widespread hostility towards migrants, stakeholders continue to disagree on the usefulness of causal claims linking climate change to migration. Further, I show that dominant practices used to represent climate migration only serve to reinforce these tensions. French stakeholders never successfully locate climate migration in a “here and now” amenable to intervention. Finally, I also highlight simultaneous and contradictory attempts to politicise and depoliticise responses to climate migration, as evidenced by debates about responsibility and justice. Having underscored the contingent nature of climate migration debates, I conclude the thesis by comparing my French case study with other countries, suggesting that many of the issues faced by French stakeholders are likely to apply in other contexts. General research interests

Durand-Delacre, D. (2021, March 25 th) A primer on climate migration. Global Human Movement Review. Cambridge Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/blog/primer-climate-migration I am a human geographer and critical migration scholar interested in the political, cultural, and epistemological controversies arising from growing concern about climate change’s impact on human mobilities. I situate my work broadly within the fields of mobilities studies, social science of climate change, and geographies of knowledge. Having successfully defended my PhD thesis in September 2022, I joined the UNU-EHS in November 2022 as a senior researcher in the “Environment and Migration: Interactions and Choices” (EMIC) section. Career Co-convenor. Fieldwork Seminar Series: Methodologies in the ‘field’. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (2018 – 2019)The DELACRE ETOILE trademark was assigned an Application Number # UK00811415490 by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). Human mobilities, climate change, and the pandemic, in panel on “Doing Business Differently: the “new normal” of climate change after the pandemic”, Tsukuba Conference 2021, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan [online – invited by Shinichiro Asayama] (September 2021) Ferrero has appointed Jerome Gregoire, currently head of the company’s operations in Greece, Cyprus and Malta, as managing director at Delacre, the biscuit-maker it has just bought from United Biscuits. Réfugiés Bienvenue (Refugees Welcome France), Paris. President (04/2017 – 10/2018). Previously: Vice-President (06/2016 – 03/2017) and volunteer (11/2015 – 02/2017). Durand-Delacre, D. (2022) (Mis)representing climate mobilities: lessons from documentary filmmakers. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(14), 3397-3415. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2066260 (Open Access)