In an earlier paper we interpreted the resolution of the 2005 WTO dispute on GIs as a stalemate and suggested a shift of the balance of power in favor of the pro-GI coalition. Since then, international negotiations continue to be stalled. The record of GIs as a tool for the promotion of rural...

[fre] Exposé introductif à la session. Au delà de discussions sur les définitions, il est essentiel de voir que les activités de développement sont liées à la situation d'ensemble de l'agriculture et aux priorités de la politique agricole. Le renversement des situations conduit à des...

[eng] In spite of the lack of statistical data concerning the development in the numbers of the different categories of cattle, it appears that the number of cows is no longer increasing at the rythm of 2 '/* per year. In the absence of detailed and regular observation of the different types of...

[eng] Foreign points of view - We asked four foreign colleagues (M. de Benedictis, F. Heidhues, W. Moyer et M. Tracy) to give us their points of view on agricultural economics in France (more precisely on « économie rurale » as it is called in France), seen both as a discipline and as a...

[eng] Teaching marxist economics is justified, according to the author who belongs to the neo-classical tradition, because marxism is at least a very good pedagogical means to make students conscious of the fundamental hypotheses, and hence of the limitations, of neoclassical economics. In a...

[eng] The purpose of the article is to suggest an economic analysis of the situation of our agriculture and thus to emphasize the limits of the Mansholt Plan. The main faults are : 1) The ignorance of the opportunity cost principle which lead the authors to arbitrary computations of sizes of...