Agriculture provides many ecosystem services such as food, fiber, clean water, and sequestration of carbon. The efficiency of such ecosystem services depends on crop composition and farmer decisions. Current knowledge on landscape changes is focused on crop allocation process at farm scale and...

Farm size in industrialized countries grew significantly over the second half of the twentieth century. Using several econometric models, this article examines factors that influence farm size, the probability of an increase in farm size, and the intensity of farm growth. We find that farm...

Agricultural land fragmentation is widespread around the world and may affect farmers’ decisions and therefore have an impact on the performance of farms, in either a negative or a positive way. We investigated this impact for the western region of Brittany, France, in 2007. To do so, we...

Traiter la pollution liée aux déchets et aux effluents en produisant de l'énergie renouvelable. Telle est la promesse de la méthanisation agricole actuellement promue par les pouvoirs publics. Le cadre juridique de la méthanisation à la ferme a de ce fait beaucoup évolué ces derniers...

Nowadays, consumers are more and more concerned about the traceability of the food they purchase. As a response to this phenomenon, labels have flourished highlighting the environmental impact of products for some, their nutritive characteristics or their origin for others. In this context, we...

Les aléas climatiques figurent parmi les principales sources de risque de variations des résultats technico-économiques auxquelles sont confrontés les élevages de bovins allaitants. L’enjeu est de mieux comprendre comment les éleveurs peuvent diminuer leur exposition aux risques...

Agricultural land fragmentation is widespread and may affect farmers’ decisions and therefore have an impact on the performence of farms, wheter in a negative or in a positive way. In this paper we test whether the relationship is positive or negative for French western region of Brittany in...

Cette étude propose un panorama de la situation de l'emploi salarié agricole en France et de son évolution au cours de la période contemporaine en mobilisant différentes sources statistiques. Après avoir décrit les conditions générales de l'emploi salarié -le type de contrat, la nature...