Small and medium-sized towns have traditionally formed an integral part of the agricultural sector and wider rural economy, acting as a source of farm inputs, a first destination of farm outputs and as a source of consumer goods and services to farm households. In recent years, this relationship...

The well-known rise 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 manure management regulation restricting manure application per acre...

[fre] L'examen de la façon dont se combinent localement les principales activités économiques met en évidence le poids croissant dans les emplois ruraux, des activités destinées à satisfaire les besoins des populations locales, activités qui constituent le socle d'une économie dite «...

[eng] Relative competitiveness in milk production in EEC (Recent Evolution) . On the first part, the paper shows the stability of milk location and farming systems in Europe. After we examine the competitiveness problems (and theirs evolutions between 1984 and 1986), according to the RICA data,...

[fre] Cet article propose une analyse économique de la "renaissance rurale" française. Dans un premier temps, les flux de migrations, résidentielles ou professionnelles, sont analysés dans un cadre micro-économique. Puis on examine la régression de l'agriculture, le maintien de l'industrie...