CONTENTS

RAW MATERIALS
5 EDITORIAL
BRUNO SAUVALLE

General
7 Equity and efficiency in the use of natural resources
Pierre-Noël GIRAUD
11 The only certainty for 2010: the instability
Philippe CHALMIN


Energy
13 The outlook for world oil supply
Bruno WEYMULLER
19 Changes in oil prices
Denis BABUSIAUX et Axel PIERRU
27 Natural gas: energy future
Jean-Marie DAUGER
34 The new geopolitics coal
Sylvie CORNOT-GANDOLPHE
41 The nuclear raw materials
Bernard BIGOT
51 Biofuels: what potential for development?
Nathalie ALAZARD-TOUX

Agriculture
58 How to feed nine billion people without destroying the environment?
Michel GRIFFON
62 Give priority to an economic approach for the development of African agriculture
Bernard BACHELIER

Metals
67 Strategic management of mineral resources by governments and mining companies: towards development of oligopolies?
Patrice CHRISTMANN et Bruno MARTEL-JANTIN
75 The European initiative on commodities
Abraão de CARVALHO
79 Mineral resources: an asset for the development of sub-Saharan Africa?
Paulo de SA and Gary McMAHON
84 Lithium: a strategic metal
Antoine GOUZE
92 The rare earth mineral raw materials policy
Jean-Pierre CLAMADIEU et Emmanuel BUTSTRAEN