This paper examines the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency using data from the European Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for operations specializing on dairy. The analysis covers the 18 year period going from 1990 to 2007 and includes eleven countries: Belgium,...

The major objective of this paper is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency using data from the European Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for operations specializing on dairy. The analysis covers the 18 year period going from 1990 to 2007 and includes...

Le chapitre aborde deux questions, concernant les mesures agro-environnementales dans l’axe 2 du 2e pilier: celle de leurs facteurs d’appropriation et de leurs impacts.

Les réformes successives de la politique agricole commune (PAC) depuis les années 1990 ont progressivement introduit les questions environnementales dans ses objectifs. Cependant, la PAC reste une politique sectorielle d’adaptation de l’outil de production et de soutien au revenu agricole....

[Paper in French] The European Union (EU) has gradually increased the importance of environmental issues in the objectives and instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Agro-environmental schemes, enforced within all of the Member States since the 90’s, are contracted by the farmers...

This article investigates the impact of various rural development measures on the evolution of farm labour in France between 2006 and 2011. Regionally-aggregated data were used, while potential spatial effects were taken into account. Results show that farm labour change was positively...