Les mesures agri-environnementales (MAE) visent à améliorer les impacts environnementaux de l’agriculture, à l’aide de subventions allouées sur la base d’engagements volontaires des agriculteurs pour une durée d’au moins 5 ans. Au sein du deuxième pilier de la PAC, elles sont les...

[paper in French] The article offers to describe and analyse the economic motivations for creating and operating observatories of agricultural practices. An observatory is a unit provided with technical, financial and human means as well as information and data, and which uses them to produce...

[paper in French]In France, access to land is heavily regulated by government policies and the status of the tenancy: the counterpart of this restriction of freedom is the relative stability of farmland prices. Unlike in many countries of the European Union the price of land continues to...

[paper in French] Compensation measures require a developer to offset the negative effects of the project. Two types of approaches are possible. The first one is based on the compensation claim: in this case the developer looks for surfaces on which he can offset its grip. The second focuses on...

The purpose of this work is to realise a quantitative evaluation of the European policy of rural development in two French regions : Burgundy and Brittany (5b programs 1991-1993). In this paper, we propose the use of fiscal data to build a local economic growth indicator at an infra-regional...

[fre] La réforme de la PAC et les négociations du GATT : un pas nécessaire pour un compromis minimal ? . L'agriculture est au centre des négociations multilatérales de l'Uruguay Round, les Etats-Unis refusant jusqu'à pré- senttout compromis au GATT en l'absence d'un accord sur la réforme...

L'article défend l'idée qu'il faut développer les recherches sur le développement rural en Europe. Dans un premier temps, l'auteur explique pourquoi il est important d'élargir de façon significative le domaine d'intérêt de la profession à la recherche sur l'économie des régions...

Agri-environmental schemes are the main policy instrument currently available in the EU to promoteenvironmentally friendly farming practices. Nevertheless, the adoption rate of these measures is stilllimited. This paper develops a theoretical framework to explain farmer sign-up decision and...

Current EU legislation states that premiums for agri-environmental schemes must be calculated based on forgone profit and additional costs. This approach has been implemented for the last decades without much success in farmer uptake, a situation that might even worsen as the 20% additional...