By examining the relation between the greater Paris Region and its agriculture, this paper sheds light on the questions of food for the city, land occupation and landscapes amenities. Farms occupy nowadays 50 % of the whole surface of the region, but the economic weight of agriculture is quite...

This book provides an economic perspective on the effects of food safety standards on international trade. Focusing on food safety regulation at an international level and private food safety standards, the authors use contemporary methodologies to analyze supply chain structures and...

1 Introduction -- 2 Changing Trends in Rural Self-Employment in Europe and Turkey -- 3 A New Form of Small Industrial Business in Rural Area: To Exceeding the Local Roots? -- 4 The Modalities of Territorial Embeddedness of French Cooperative Groups -- 5 Strategies for Sustainable Regional...

The Local Agro-Environmental Schemes (L-AES) are a new policy instrument to reach the objective of « good status » of aquatic environment planned by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Mid-term of the 2007-2013 French Rural Development Program, the rate of achievement for...

Fresh produce growers are the main source of food contamination by chemical pesticides. In their choice of farming practices, producers are influenced by market forces as well as public and private safety regulations – or “macro-drivers” – as opposed to farm-level micro-drivers. Growers...

type="main" xml:id="jage12019-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article draws on the agricultural household literature to understand the dynamics of wage labour on farms in a context of family farming. The recent evolution towards an increased use of seasonal wage labour motivates the original distinction...</p>

This paper proposes an analysis of environmental services produced in rural areas and their links with the notions of organised proximity and geographical proximity. Among the different concepts of environmental services, we use that suggested by service economics to focus on the forms of...

[fre] Cet article fait le point sur trois questions relatives à l'emploi agricole. Les déterminants structurels de l'emploi agricole connaissent-ils une inflexion ? Les caractéristiques des emplois agricoles et de leur renouvellement changent-elles ? L'emploi agricole est-il encore une...