The well-known increase in the geographical concentration of hog production suggests the presence of agglomeration economies related to spatial spillovers and inter-dependencies among industries. In this paper, we examine whether the restrictions on land application of manure may weaken...

En 1999, l'espace à dominante rurale retrouve le même nombre d'habitants qu'en 1962 , soit 13,6 millions de personnes. Il gagne 247 000 habitants en neuf ans. Le regain démographique qui résulte d'un apport migratoire supérieur au déficit naturel se généralise, atteignant une majorité...

Le poids croissant des emplois dans les services aux populations fait de ces secteurs une composante essentielle des économies rurales contemporaines. Leur développement qui, au cours de la dernière décennie, s'est affirmé dans les communes périurbaines et l'espace à dominante rurale,...

[eng] Evolution of income's dairy farmers . The income's variation of dairy farms since the introduction of milk quotas is analysed with two constant samples of FADN (83-88 and 88-91). After an amelioration over the first period, the relative position of dairy farmers declines due to a negative...

Courtney P., Lepicier D. and Schmitt B. Spatial patterns of production linkages in the context of Europe's small towns: how are rural firms linked to the local economy?, Regional Studies. Small towns have received increasing attention from policy-makers aiming to stimulate rural development...

SCHMITT B. (1999) Economic geography and contemporary rural dynamics: an empirical test on some French regions, Reg. Studies 33 , 697-711. This paper presents an economic geography framework used to account for rural population and employment changes. Besides agglomerative forces, these models...

We examine whether the restrictions on manure land application weaken productivity gains arising from agglomeration in the hog sector. By developing a spatial model of production, we show that while regulating the manure application rate promotes dispersion ceteris paribus, it also prompts...