The application on September 2005 of the association agreement between the European Union and Algeria had negative repercussions on the Algerian sugar market. French filiere approach is used in order to analyse the Algerian sugar chain and to point out the reasons of this situation as well as...

This article focuses on the conditions of emergence of food quality in Western European rural areas, and confronts the trajectories of agricultural areas with their capacity to develop qualification systems for products. We use an original methodology crossing agricultural and quality typologies...

To understand local development in Lithuania, we must take into account the effects of the social, economic and territorial heritage on how local areas function. The institutional vacuum created by the disappearance of large collective farms after the Soviet Union’s collapse was not filled by...

French farming underwent major changes in its productive space throughout the nineteenth century due to fast demographic disruptions and a wavering economic growth until 1929. Some major farming areas date back to that time. However, we shall show here that integrating new ways of farming ? more...