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...

To understand local development in Lithuania, we must take into account the effects of the social, economic and territorial heritage on how local areas function. The institutional vacuum created by the disappearance of large collective farms after the Soviet Union’s collapse was not filled by...

This article focuses on the conditions of emergence of food quality in Western European rural areas, and confronts the trajectories of agricultural areas with their capacity to develop qualification systems for products. We use an original methodology crossing agricultural and quality typologies...

Chemical contamination of fresh produce through pesticide spraying is considered a minor risk for consumer health. As a result, a high proportion of safety controls may be delegated to the private sector by public agencies. Private control is even greater when fresh produce is sold to...

(VF)L’article analyse les interactions entre dynamiques actionnariales et concurrentielles dans la stratégie des grandes multinationales agroalimentaires en Europe. Il révèle l’émergence d’un nouveau modèle de firme globale et financiarisée. Ces firmes, d’origine tant européenne...

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...

[eng] The food multinationals are the active actors of the globalisation process of the world economy. By diversifying their products and markets, and by an international expansion of their markets they adopt new strategies to pull themselves up in world ranking and to maximise their profits in...