Because of their perishable nature and the impact of their quality on consumers, agricultural products have always raised important problems of coordination and control with high transaction costs. The recent period in the agrifood industry has registered substantial evolution in devices...

Agri-environmental payments are part of a re-instrumentation of farm support in some developed countries. In general, they are meant to contribute to the cost of meeting regulations, compensate for income lost by adopting certain practices, and reward farmers for providing environmental...

[eng] This article analyses the crisis of the New Zealand economy in the period preceeding the reform of the government economic policy undertaken since 1984. The importance of the agrifood sector in the New Zealand economy is shown. The article explains why the farm sector was the main target...