Since the mid-1980s, the Indonesian economy has been progressively liberalized, following a self-adjustment process after the drop in oil prices. Despite these adverse circumstances the country managed to maintain rapid economic growth, as it had since the end of the 1960s. The agricultural...

This article suggests a conceptual framework for analyzing the consequences of the recent prices increase on the poorest people in the world. The complexity of mechanisms at work is demonstrated. At the global level, the analysis points out that Sub Saharan Africa exhibits the worst situation...

The Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on Earth, and has been undergoing rapid deforestation for the last four decades. In the Brazilian Amazon, large-scale pasture for cattle ranching and soybean production are the main land uses, leading to a yearly deforestation rate of 0.5%. These...

The purposes of this paper are twofold (i) to evaluate changes in welfare gains and their distribution due to trade liberalization when imperfect labor markets are considered, (ii) to evaluate the impact of the recent reforms of European agricultural policy on the world welfare. The results of...

[eng] In order to set up a sound agricultural policy, at least an order of magnitude for the milk supply response to price is needed. For instance, a negative milk price supply elasticity would make irrelevant any policy designed to cut back the oversupply through a decline in prices. But...

[fre] Afin d'étudier les politiques agricoles possibles pour une petite région du sud du Sénégal, un modèle du comportement des paysans traditionnels a été construit à l'aide de programmes linéaires. Ce modèle a été vérifié puis utilisé pour prévoir l'évolution de la région...

[fre] Le caractère omniprésent de l'hétérogénéité en agriculture est une évidence, qu'il s'agisse de la taille des entreprises ou des techniques mises en œuvre par les agriculteurs. Ce phénomène est à première vue surprenant pour un économiste, habitué à considérer que la...