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...

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...

Malgré l’importance accordée aux circuits courts de commercialisation dans le domaine de l’alimentation depuis une décennie en France, l’offre des exploitations et leurs performances demeurent méconnues. Ce rapport présente d’abord les questions méthodologiques posées par...

Ce document constitue une des trois parties de l’étude commanditée par le Ministère de l’Agriculture pour l’élaboration d’une méthodologie et la production de références en circuits courts. Cette partie est consacrée aux exploitations produisant des légumes frais pour les...

Ce travail a pour objectif la construction d’un score d’attractivité sectorielle des IDE. Il a été illustré par le cas des industries agroalimentaires dans les PSEM. La multiplication des scores et indicateurs d’attractivité réduit la visibilité/ crédibilité de certaines...

In the last years European farmers have been facing two new phenomena: the asymmetric price transmission in agro-food sector and the decrease of agricultural value added. The European Commission denounced low transparency in trade relationships and frequent unfair commercial practices between...

This article highlights the interaction between social capital, pooling and quality premiums and their influence on cooperative members’ decisions regarding their product quality. A necessary condition for cooperative equitable principles such as complete pooling is that there exists a high...

In agro-food enterprises from Romania, management of risk control is seen as a dynamic process that, in order to work involves a cycle that incorporates risk identification, assessment, administering and verification. Risk management is closely related to the performance management, so that it...