The Marais des Baux wetland in southern France has for centuries been subject to drainage, almost causing its entire disappearance. With an increasing awareness of wetland ecosystem services, the extensive drainage is being questioned today. To guide policy-makers and landowners in their...

The aim of this paper is to elicit the sensitivity of farmers to payments for agro-environmental services in a context of strong agro-ecological and policy constraints. We present results from a choice experiment survey performed among the whole population of agricultural decision-makers (104)...

This paper aims to investigate different water market designs to accommodate coupled externalities in the context of irrigation-induced salinity. It provides a preliminary analysis of three types of market mechanisms, involving diversion rights and recharge rights.

[eng] On the basis of an existing typology of vineyards and data on non agricultural activities and family incomes, a pattern of characteristics and behaviour of the different social classes of wine-growers in the Languedoc area is established and their relative importance examined. The results...

[eng] Factors and limits of farmers long term indebtedness . From a Lifecycle Model with endogenous (entrepreneurial) resources, we defined optimal debt, and the consequences of credit constraints on the heterogeneity of farmer's households. Taking into account age effects in borrowing behaviour...