This research addresses two important issues for the future expansion of organic consumption in France. The first one is related to knowing whether the organic choice is a permanent feature of consumer's attitude or not: Do organic buyers occasionally pick one organic product or do they choose...

These last years, a fall in consumer's confidence in food safety encouraged false alerts which sometimes led to actual crisis. This paper studies a crisis due to an alert concerning a risk of listeria on a raw milk camembert brand. The investigation relies on individual data. Two results of risk...

In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired...

Organic farming covers just 3.5% of the utilised agricultural area (UAA) in France (2011 Agence Bio figures). Sales statistics show that a mere 2.3% of the French food market came from organic farming in 2008. The French government’s Environment Forum (“Grenelle de...

Most previous studies modeling overeducation has failed to take into account the impact of the local labor markets characteristics. We investigate overeducation in such a context, focusing on employment density. In this paper we restrict our analysis on a statistical approach of the...

Cette étude propose un panorama de la situation de l'emploi salarié agricole en France et de son évolution au cours de la période contemporaine en mobilisant différentes sources statistiques. Après avoir décrit les conditions générales de l'emploi salarié -le type de contrat, la nature...