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Les exploitations bios face à leurs contextes. Des stratégies diversifiées et interdépendantes

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Jean Nizet and Denise Van Dam
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Abstract: [paper in French]This article starts from the observation that organic farms survive and expand, despite the difficulties they face. We analyze these processes by means of organization theories and in particular the Resource Dependence Theory (RDT). We interviewed some thirty organic farmers twice in an interval of ten years in order to identify how they depend on their environments (economic, legal, etc.) and which strategies they implement to have control on them. These strategies are highly diverse, from one farm to another, they are also very unstable and they are characterized by multiple links between them. This analysis of the strategies of organic farmers completes usefully the empirical researches on organic farming; it also questions the assumptions of the RTD, to which we confer a more systemic dimension.
Keywords: organic farming; organization; strategy; dependency; context (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Determinants of direct-to-consumer sales on French farms

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Danièle Capt and Pierre Wavresky
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Abstract: This article aims to identify the influences of a variety of factors on the practice of agricultural direct-to-consumer sales activities. Using data from the 2007 Farm Structure Survey, representative of the all the farms in France, it shows that the propensity to sell directly to consumers is significantly influenced by several factors both internal to the agricultural sector (farms’ economic size and farm type, product quality, agrotourism and contract work activities, and the work team characteristics of family and hired labour, gender, educational level, farm-head age) and external to it (market characteristics, including local markets). It makes an original contribution to the literature on the subject, highlighting that beyond the traits they have in common, farms in direct-to-consumer sales present differentiated characteristics depending on the type of product they produce.
Keywords: direct-to-consumer sales; short food supply chains; food products; geographic location of activities; farms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Q13 R32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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The regulation of hunting: A game population based tax on hunters

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Jens Abildtrup (jens.abildtrup@nancy.inra.fr) and Franck Jensen
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Abstract: This paper examines a tax/subsidy on hunters based on game population. The tax/subsidy is the difference between actual and optimal population multiplied by an individual, variable tax rate. The tax rate is, among other things, based on the difference between the marginal value of the game population to the hunter and the regulator and differences in user costs of the population. The paper shows that the population tax/subsidy secures a first-best optimum.
Keywords: Hunting; population tax; regulation; forest; externality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q23 Q28 D62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Analyse socio-environnementale des canaux d’irrigation en Durance. Des outils d’ajustement aux effets du changement climatique sur la variation des ressources en eau

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Chantal Aspe, André Gilles and Marie Jacqué
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Abstract: [paper in French]The agricultural sector is often considered as the biggest water consumer and is as such more and more targeted by policies aimed at saving water, in view of the global warming. Farmers are adaptating to this societal requirement by embracing less consuming irrigation techniques. In an interesting multidisciplinary approach, we intend to demonstrate how the territorial network of gravity irrigation canals in Provence play a role when it comes to dealing with the water management and sharing in the long run. Given this, traditional irrigation canals need to be reexamined for their usefulness in the context of global warming and the issues of water scarcity or excess raised thereby in the Mediterranean region. They are not only built aquatic infrastructure with a very positive, still little recognized, environmental impact; they are also the product of a culture and social relationship with water in this part of the world.
Keywords: irrigation canals; adaptation to climate change; water sharing arrangements; biodiversity; mediterranean societies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q51 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Les semences entre critique et expérience: les ressorts pratiques d’une contestation paysanne

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Élise Demeulenaere
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Abstract: [paper in French]In the wake of the anti-GMO struggles of the nineties and the toughening of seed laws, the;2000s saw the emergence of a farmers’ movement dedicated to the reappropriation of seeds. Spanning over;a 10 year period, the paper looks at the movement’s drivers and its transformations. The reappropriation;by a group of farmers of seeds takes root in a critical discourse towards agricultural modernity, which;translates into 3 dimensions – the rejection of modern plant breeding techniques, opposition to the subaltern;position of farmers, denunciation of the instrumental relationship between industrial farming and nature.;Yet the movement has also enriched itself and been fashioned by a direct engagement with plants. This;case study contributes to a better understanding of the ongoing ecologisation of agriculture. Moreover;it provides a comprehensive illustration of a protest movement that is altered by the very object that it;contributes to shape.
Keywords: sélection variétale; semences; paysan; nature; biodiversité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q0 Q10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Does land fragmentation affect land productivity? Empirical evidence from Bulgaria

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Natalia Boliari
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Abstract: Land fragmentation is considered a major obstacle to the efficient use of land and other agricultural resources in Bulgaria. This study is concerned with formally testing the relationship between fragmentation of land plots and land productivity in the country. Multiple regression analysis and agricultural data obtained from the 2003 Bulgaria Multi-topic Household Survey is employed for the purpose. Results of the study suggest that the level of current fragmentation is relatively low and not likely to adversely affect land productivity. Other conditions being equal, therefore, land consolidation may not lead to any significant improvement in productivity in Bulgaria.
Keywords: agriculture; land fragmentation; land productivity; multi-topic household survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C36 Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Estimating the supply elasticity of cotton in Mali with the Nerlove Model: A bayesian method of moments approach

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Abstract: Mali is among the first cotton growers in Africa. Since the early nineties, it has been reforming its cotton sector by means of different policy measures. In this paper, we estimate the supply elasticity of cotton in order to have a precise idea about how producers react to price changes and what are the potential bottlenecks. Contrary to all the previous studies which fail to consistently estimate the long run elasticity of supply, we apply the Bayesian method of moments, following Zellner’s (1978) Minimum Expected Loss Estimators (MELO) approach. A key finding is that output supply elasticity is low in the short run due to structural constraints and high in the long run.
Keywords: cotton; Mali; Nerlove model; Bayesian method of moments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q11 C11 C22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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L’intention d’achat de produits biologiques régionaux: une recherche exploratoire sur la base de la théorie du comportement planifié

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Jean-Louis Pernin and Benoît Petitprêtre
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Abstract: [paper in French] According to certain recent investigations French consumers are increasingly sensitive to the regional and organic origin of their food purchases. The objective of this article is to identify the principal predictive variables of the purchasing intention of regional organic products. For that a quantitative investigation (n = 917) was carried out on the basis of the theory of planned behaviour. Considering the exploratory character of this research, the investigation integrates, in the same questionnaire, three models of the theory on a) the purchasing intention of regional products b) the purchasing intention of organic products and c) the purchasing intention of regional organic products. The analysis of the purchasing intentions of regional organic products shows the prevalence of the altruistic motivations (benefits for the environment and for the local economy) contrary to the models on the regional or organic product purchase in which the prevalent motivations are of personal order.
Keywords: purchasing intention; theory of planned behaviour; regional products; organic products; regional organic products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M30 Q13 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Les conditions pratiques d’un engagement économique et moral. Les maraîchers biologiques et la saisonnalité des fruits et légumes

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Madlyne Samak
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Abstract: [paper in French] This article deals with social mechanisms which produce normative choices of organic market gardeners, treating mainly two aspects of farm working which are significant of their relationship to production seasonality: greenhouses and commercialization. It describes and tries to explain two distinct phenomena: the variation of productive norms from one farm to another, and the evolutivity in time of these norms. These two phenomena bring us to a better comprehension of commitment (and disengagement) in favor of production seasonality “respect”.
Keywords: Organic farming; seasonality; fruit and vegetable; working rules; agricultural equipment; retail market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Artificiel ou naturel ? La filière de légumes bio confrontée à un procédé de sélection en Bretagne

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Christèle Dondeyne
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Abstract: [paper in French] This article deals with a plant breeding technique which divides organic vegetable production into two antagonistic competing networks. The fiercest critics dismiss it as being Genetically Modified Organisms that jeopardizes the ethical and environmental integrity of organic agriculture. This struggle also builds up on an oldest economic and political opposition. Public research organizations, like INRA, or organic agriculture sector, both national and international, shall be required for their expertise. Whereas from INRA point of view there is no scientific justification for considering this technique as natural or not, the others agree with ethical critic but want to cooperate economically and politically with all producers organizations.
Keywords: organic agriculture; controversy; production sector; plant breeding technique; seeds; expertise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q20 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Les circuits de proximité en fruits, une économie de la variabilité complémentaire de l’expédition

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Cecile Praly and Carole Chazoule
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Abstract: [paper in French] The fruit-growing sector in the middle Rhône valley is affected by a structural crisis. Lots of farms develop local and short marketing outlets to maintain their economic viability. We first explain the marketing strategies built by farmers to develop what are proximity marketing outlets and how they are combined with mainstream outlets. The specific functioning of proximity marketing outlets is then analyzed to show how they permit to valorize the features of fruits sector and how they constitute an economy of variability. At least, we compare the two market arrangements identified, proximity marketing outlets and mainstream outlets, and we discuss about their capacity to assure the fruits growing sector’s viability. We show it is in combining the two market arrangements the producers valorize the best their whole production.
Keywords: local food supply chain; short food supply chain; markets; variability; market arrangements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Q13 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Introduction: Les fruits et légumes dans tous leurs états. La variabilité, la périssabilité et la saisonnalité au coeur des pratiques sociales

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Antoine Bernard De Raymond, Laure Bonnaud and Marie Plessz
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Les légumes transformés: diversité des produits, diversité des usages sociaux

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Marie Plessz
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Abstract: [paper in French] During the last decades, consumption of fresh vegetables has declined while consumption of processed vegetables has increased. This paper aims at characterizing the purchases of processed vegetables in France by carrying out a principal component analysis of consumption data from the Kantar Worldpanel 2007 data. Older and more affluent households buy relatively more fresh produce and, when they buy processed vegetables, tend to choose the least processed forms. However the same product (namely minimally processed raw vegetables) are bought and used differently according to the age of the respondent. Finally, respondents less than 40 years old buy different combinations of products depending on their education, occupation and household structure while the most relevant characteristic of those over the age of 60 is income.
Keywords: Food consumption; vegetables; processed food; convenience food; age; socioeconomic status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z13 D10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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The role of risk aversion and labor constraints in the adoption of low input practices supported by the CAP green payments in cash crop farms

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Aude Ridier, Mohamed Ghali, G. Nguyen and Charilaos Kephaliacos

Abstract: Since the late 1980s, many alternative practices have been proposed to European farmers to reduce pesticide and input use in general. These practices have been promoted by agro-environmental contracts signed between individual farmers and the European Union and by which farmers engage themselves in changing their practices. The adoption rate of these measures has remained very low in many European regions particularly in Southwestern France. This article aims at stressing the role played by risk attitude and labor constraint in farmers’ adoption decision. After presenting a static theoretical model which assesses the impact of labor constraints and risk attitude on the level of adoption of low input practices supported by agro-environmental contracts, the article proposes a numerical application based on a mathematical programming risk-model implemented on two typical crop farms in South-western France. Three kinds of contracts (no tillage, long rotation, lower pest treatments) are tested, two of them (long rotation and lower pest treatments) aiming at directly reducing input use. The results show that, despite the overall positive impact of alternative practices under contract on environment and farmers’ income, increased yield variability under positive risk aversion and larger labor requirements are actual barriers to adoption.
Keywords: low input practices; risk; adoption; labor productivity; agri environmental incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 C67 Q12 Q18 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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