Since 1999, in France, a new public intervention scheme called "CTE" has been proposed to farmers. Inside this contractual scheme, economic agents may coordinate collectively to jointly attain traditional economic objectives and environmental targets through collective projects. We are...

We try, in this paper, to emphasise the role of market structure in the adoption of cleaner production technologies. The paper comes within the framework of the research carried out around the Porter hypothesis, according to which the integration of environmental constraints by firms can induce...

The issue addressed in this paper is whether implementation of the CAP MTR, (involving decoupled payments reduced by "modulations" and subject to cross-compliance measures) can be effective in improving the environmental impact of arable farming. The focus is on two French cross-compliance...

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...

In this article, the introduction of Short Rotation Coppices of Eucalyptus into specialized cash crop farming systems is analyzed at both individual and local scale. The area studied is located in Toulouse urban area, which raises the problem of competition between farming, forest and urban...