Because of their perishable nature and the impact of their quality on consumers, agricultural products have always raised important problems of coordination and control with high transaction costs. The recent period in the agrifood industry has registered substantial evolution in devices...

Agri-environmental payments are part of a re-instrumentation of farm support in some developed countries. In general, they are meant to contribute to the cost of meeting regulations, compensate for income lost by adopting certain practices, and reward farmers for providing environmental...

[eng] This article analyses the crisis of the New Zealand economy in the period preceeding the reform of the government economic policy undertaken since 1984. The importance of the agrifood sector in the New Zealand economy is shown. The article explains why the farm sector was the main target...

[eng] The milk quota market in québec : seeking for perfect competition . By this work, the authors will attempt to demonstrate that, following various crises in the dairy industry and growing internal contradictions within the quota transfer system, regulations regarding quota transfers...

The restructuring of the dairy sector, particularly active during the last 20 years, is often justified by to the need for dairy farms to increase their competitiveness. This restructuring has resulted in the continued growth in the size of dairy farms and the parallel decline of small family...

[fre] Une proportion significative de ménages agricoles combine plusieurs types d'activités professionnelles. Mais la compatibilité de ces différentes activités ne va pas toujours de soi. Il est donc souhaitable d'intégrer une réflexion sur l'organisation du travail dans l'analyse de...

A survey of more than 150 small dairy farms and local economic, professional and political stakeholders was conducted in six regions of France. It revealed five types of farm strategy in relation to the farm’s size, agricultural diversification, importance of direct selling, and farm and...

La construction du deuxième pilier de la PAC, qui marque l’émergence d’un nouveau compromis entre l’agriculture et la société, devrait déboucher sur un élargissement du public bénéficiaire du conseil agricole. Cette hypothèse est infirmée par l’analyse de la population des...