This paper reports on the increased volatility in the milk price received by Flemish dairyfarmers and its consequence on the risk profile of selected Flemish dairy farms. Thevolatility of the milk price has doubled since January 2007. It is suggested that thisincreasing volatility could have a...

Sustainability is now regarded as a crucial property of agricultural systems and its evaluation has become a main challenge for scientists, policy makers and farmers. In the last decade, different sets of indicators have been designed both at national and international levels. Meanwhile, more...

Risk considerations have become increasingly important in nowadays agriculture, due to a variety ofreasons. Surprisingly, the practice of formalized risk management is not widespread despite the hugeamount of scientific literature on this topic. This discrepancy between risk science and...

Organic farming and fair trade certified chains have emerged in West-Africa since the 1990s inanswer to new alternative markets in developed countries. These chains, involving actors fromNorth and South, are seen as an opportunity to sustainably valorise the small peasants agriculturein Africa...

The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...

Agricultural policy makers aim to combinestrong economic performance with a sustainable use of naturalresources. An important step is to move from trying to definesustainability towards developing concrete tools for measuringand promoting achievements in sustainability. Hence,sustainability...