LA RARETÉ DE LA TERRE fait l’objet de préoccupations récurrentes dans l’opinion publique et ses institutions. Le consensus sur la croissance à venir de la demande -pour l’alimentation mais également les agrocarburants, l’urbanisation, les services écosystémiques ou la...

Agricultural land fragmentation is widespread and may affect farmers’ decisions and impact farm performance, either negatively or positively. We investigated this impact for the western region of Brittany, France, in 2007. To do so, we regressed a set of performance indicators on a set of...

This article examines farmers' preferences for both cropping and management practices, which are of policy interest because of their environmental impact. We present the results of a choice experiment survey of all agricultural decision makers in the Camargue region. A latent class model...

The achievement of sustainable agriculture, economically viable, socially equitable, environmentally sound and capable of providing sufficient amounts of food in both quantity and quality for a population is a major challenge of agricultural research. In Guadeloupe, a French overseas territory...

Nowadays, consumers are more and more concerned about the traceability of the food they purchase. As a response to this phenomenon, labels have flourished highlighting the environmental impact of products for some, their nutritive characteristics or their origin for others. In this context, we...

En Guadeloupe et en Martinique, la production bananière doit relever le défi de mieux conjuguer performances économiques et environnementales. Les pratiques intensives et la monoculture ont en effet eu pour conséquence le développement parasitaire, une baisse de la fertilité des sols et...