This paper investigates the impact of credit constraints on the adoption of hybrid maize among rural households in Malawi. To address the endogenous and binary nature of the household's credit constraints status, we employ a treatment-effects model to consistently estimate the effect of credit...

[paper in French] As a member of the European Community since 2007, Romania is expected to provide statistical data conforming to the European Commission’s standards. Agriculture has come under particularly close scrutiny with almost four million Romanians earning their living directly from...

Risk management strategies are of increasing importance in agriculture. An important question is what type of risk management strategies are required to reduce farmers’ income risks? Applying a variance decomposition approach using data from more than 3,000 Swiss farms over a five-year period,...

[paper in French] The recent changes in the agricultural world tend to blur the family farm’s boundaries, which invites us to analyse those two institutions as articulated. On the basis of a case study conducted on dairy cattle farms in Vercors, we set a framework which links family...

The article analyses the discrepancy between farmers’ investment intentions and the observed realisations. We focus on intentions to investment in land on the part of 171 farmers in 6 EU case study areas (collected in 2006) and their realised investments between 2006 and 2009. While the...

The volatility of hog prices is high compared to most agricultural commodities. However, European hog producers do not benefit from any agricultural policy support. Through the continuous production process and induced selling activity on spot markets, producers benefit from a natural moving...

This paper analyses the evolution of the European agricultural productivity distribution under the hypothesis of persistent differences in productivity levels over time. We use the Cambridge Econometrics European Regional Database and work on a sample of 125 EU-15 regions from 1985 to 2004....

[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...

[paper in French]This paper describes the design and implementation of an experimental device aiming to;supply local fruits and vegetables to food aid recipients in the area of Montpellier in France. It reports;the process that led various actors, including one of the authors of the paper, to...

[Paper in French] Through contingent valuation method, this article determines farmer’s willingness to accept for adoption the restoration project of Lake Chad. Using the survey data collected in the Cameroonian part of Lake Chad, the statistical analyses estimate the average farmer’s...