Paper removed at request of authors - 06/23/09.

This book chapter discusses the productive and economic implications of several options for the future Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) focusing on French dairy farms (as France includes 16% of the EU milk quota). The options studied follow the proposals made by the European Commission in May...

In this paper, we discuss the cross-effects on the productive strategy of French dairy farms due to the decoupling and to price variation. A model based on mathematical programming has been developed to determine how dairy farmers might re-evaluate their systems to identify an optimal production...

Les quotas laitiers, instaurés en 1984, seront supprimés à horizon de 2015. A partir d’un modèle de type bioéconomique, cet article discute des principales implications productives et économiques de cette évolution importante de la Politique Agricole Commune (PAC). L’hypothèse est...

The reform of European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2003 has resulted in substantial changes to the attribution of subsidies to dairy farmers. Moreover, dairy farmers are in also facing an unprecedented situation on the markets with the soaring prices of agricultural raw materials: they...

In this paper, we discuss the cross-effects on the productive strategy of French dairy farms due to the decoupling and to price variation. A model based on mathematical programming has been developed to determine how dairy farmers might re-evaluate their systems to identify an optimal production...