This article analyzes the consequences for risk distribution of the French Flood Prevention Action Programme (PAPI). By redirecting floods from the most vulnerable to the least vulnerable areas, PAPIs expose farmers to greater flood risks. This has led local water management institutions to...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether international income transfers can improve or worsen the global level of biodiversity and global social welfare by changing the relative contributions to biodiversity protection and to agricultural production. Because of the public good nature of...

La faisabilité de la réforme prévue pour l'industrie sucrière marocaine est évaluée à travers deux difficultés : le processus de négociation entre les producteurs de plantes sucrières et les unités de transformation ; l'abandon du système de prix fixé au niveau mondial pour la...

La politique agricole commune (Pac), qui fut au coeur de la construction européenne, divise aujourd'hui les États membres. On lui reproche son coût (près de 40 % du budget européen) et la répartition très inégalitaire de ses bénéfices. On l'accuse de nuire aux pays en développement,...

La faisabilité de la réforme prévue pour l'industrie sucrière marocaine est évaluée à travers deux difficultés : le processus de négociation entre les producteurs de plantes sucrières et les unités de transformation ; l'abandon du système de prix fixé au niveau mondial pour la...

Competition in a multi-unit auction is measured both by the number of bidders and by the relative size of their demands, compared to the number of units on sale. For the same degree of competition (identical aggregate demand and supply), we can observe different demand structures. Do they have...

[paper in French] Territorialized agri-environmental measures (MAEt) were introduced in France for the 2007-2013 Common Agricultural Policy program, in order to improve the cost-effectiveness of agri-environmental policies. This paper assesses qualitatively the innovations of MAEt with special...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether international income transfers can improve or worsen the global level of biodiversity and global social welfare by changing the relative contributions to biodiversity protection and to agricultural production. Because of the public good nature of...

The voluntary provision of public goods can be enhanced by subsidies paid to contributors. However, in the case of threshold public goods, subsidies can be wasted if the public good is not ultimately produced. We therefore test the performance of a conditional subsidy paid to each contributor...

[paper in French]The CAP reform is an opportunity to improve the design of existing agri-environmental schemes. Understanding the design attributes affecting farmers’ choices when they adopt an agri-environmental contract can help to identify ways of increasing their participation. The aim of...