Farm size in industrialized countries grew significantly over the second half of the twentieth century. Using several econometric models, this article examines factors that influence farm size, the probability of an increase in farm size, and the intensity of farm growth. We find that farm...

This paper reviews the rise of geographic concentrations of small food-processing units in rural areas of Latin America, in order to show that, drawing on the literature on the development of clusters, they may represent a type of local productive system, namely Local Agri-food Systems....

In developing countries, the contribution of the growing amount of migrant remittances to development remains an unsettled issue. At the macroeconomic level remittances do represent an external flow way above official aid and often in line with FDI. Hence the widely shared optimistic view about...

LAS (Localised Agri-food Systems) approach has been viewed until now as either an analysis of a variety of local production system or an anthropological vision of the links between food and places. Although theses approaches are relevant, they prove sometimes hard to differentiate themselves of...

The reference to the “win-win” character of sustainable development policies is ubiquitous and gets back to the seminal Bruntland definition. It is particularly common in biodiversity protected areas management debate, frequently associated with poverty alleviation in Southern countries This...

La littérature montre que les exploitations agricoles des pays industrialisés se sont significativement agrandies durant la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle. Cet article s'intéresse aux facteurs influençant la croissance foncière des exploitations agricoles du sud-ouest de la France....

Cet article fait un bilan de l'approche économique de la notion de système agroalimentaire localisé (SYAL) apparu depuis environ une dizaine d'années.

This paper sets up a balance of the economic approach of the concept of Localized Agri-food System, since its emergence ten years ago. It assesses its relationship with the more general Local Productive System approach : is it a mere variety of LPS by sector or does it entail a specific...

Environmental valuation "multi-stakeholder" processes, as advocated by ecological economics, often have a strong local character. Critical Natural Capital cannot be defined without referring to a given geographical scale, very often local in terms of the definition of the environmental resource...

Local environmental issues appear caught up in the rhetoric of planetary problems. Nevertheless, the unequal allocation of ecological strains can entail a specific idiosyncrasy of issues at the local level, which could combine with the idiosyncrasy of the local patterns of development. This...