In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation of potential adoption of herbicide-tolerant (HT) genetically modified (GM) rapeseed in France. Our aim is to study ex ante the potential impact of their adoption in France, in terms of adoption level, economic gains, and distribution of these...

In this paper, a continuous version of theMarkov Chain Model (MCM) is proposed to project thenumber and the population structure of farms. It is thenapplied to the population of professional French farms.Rather than working directly with transitionprobabilities as in the traditional,...

"Sustainable development must satisfy the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. Although it looks at the economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability, this article focuses specifically on an analysis of the concept in...