The organization on a regional basis of the public Italian Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) responds both to historical reasons and to the extreme differentiation of the local farming systems, institutional arrangements, and many other contextual factors. In Italy, each Region has its own...

This paper examines the consequences of the transformations of extension services for small scale farms. It presents the results of investigations embedded in regulation theory, which combine a comparative institutional analysis, statistical data processing (national agricultural census) and...

Various theoretical models of public policy analysis are used to treat situations of decision-making in which public deciders have to take into account the multifunctionality of agriculture. For some, science-society relations are not really problematical. Others acknowledge the current attempts...

There is a wide range of evaluation methods. On the basis of which criteria should one method be chosen? On what scientific foundations are the results of numerous evaluations based? How can reliability and empirical validity be tested? The relevance of such questions is heightened in new fields...

There is a wide range of evaluation methods. On the basis of which criteria should one methodbe chosen? On what scientific foundations are the results of numerous evaluations based? Howcan reliability and empirical validity be tested? The relevance of such questions is heightened innew fields of...

Various theoretical models of public policy analysis are used to treat situations ofdecision-making in which public deciders have to take into account themultifunctionality of agriculture. For some, science-society relations are not reallyproblematical. Others acknowledge the current attempts of...

L’objet de cet article est d’analyser les changements au sein des dispositifs de conseil agricole en France, aux Pays-Bas et dans les nouveaux Länder allemands, de 1945 à nos jours. Le conseil agricole peut être représenté comme une activité de service pour la production de...

La construction du deuxième pilier de la PAC, qui marque l’émergence d’un nouveau compromis entre l’agriculture et la société, devrait déboucher sur un élargissement du public bénéficiaire du conseil agricole. Cette hypothèse est infirmée par l’analyse de la population des...