We examine whether and how rainfall shocks affect tariff setting in the agricultural sector. In a model of international oligopoly, we show that the impact of a negative rainfall shock on optimal import tariffs is generally ambiguous, depending on the weight placed by the domestic policy maker...

Face à la montée en puissance des réglementations environnementales, les formes de solidarité entre les agriculteurs professionnels font l'objet, depuis une vingtaine d'années, d'importantes recompositions. Aux Pays-Bas, ces recompositions ont donné lieu à l'émergence de nouvelles...

Le Colloque " Agricultures et territoires ruraux, ressorts du développement régional en Midi-Pyrénées " a marqué la fin du Programme de recherche Pour et Sur le Développement Régional (PSDR 3) déployé en région depuis 2007. Ce Programme de recherche est composé de huit projets alliant...

This paper analyses technology in modern Japan using three models of technological culture where the author claims "technological culture" as complex structures of certain technological principles in connection with a set of value orientations such as world view, attitudes towards living things,...

Benin covers a land area of 114,763 square kilometers and occupies a long stretch of land perpendicular to the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. It is bordered on the north by Burkina Faso and the Republic of Niger, on the east by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and on the west by the...

According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Le Treut et al. 2007, 96), climate is defined as average weather over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. Climate is usually described in terms of the mean and variability...