[fre] La politique agricole commune continue de faire l'objet de critiques multiples. Pourtant, les dernières décisions prises (quotas, Q.M.G.) montrent que la réforme de la PAC. est sérieusement engagée. L'ampleur des changements est loin d'être négligeable. Le rôle joué par la France...

[eng] Ivory Coast must now face the problem of food self-sufficiency. With steady urbanization, growth of personal income, low price for rice take place new food consumption habits. The most important result of that situation is the rapid rate of increase of cereals importations. On the other...

This paper investigates French field crop farms’ use of various types of labour during the period 1990–2007. We explore the determinants of the three types of labour used on farm (family labour, hired labour and contract labour), with a particular emphasis on the impact of Common...

This paper develops a profit maximiser theoretical framework which takes into account the potential presence of fixed costs when applying to an AES based on introducing an alternative cropping system (alfalfa). Estimation results show that there is an adoption barrier derived from the lack of...

This paper analyses the heterogeneity of compliance costs on farmers' choices to participate in agri-environment schemes. The theoretical distinction between fixed and variable costs is used to explain why factors that determine participation may differ from those which determine how much land...

This paper deals with policy mechanism designs for agri-environmental schemes when the bio-physical processes are characterised by threshold effects. There is a threshold effect when specified farming practices must be applied on a minimal share of an area of interest to trigger perceptible...