Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional indicators of those price distortions such as producer and consumer support estimates (PSEs and CSEs) can be poor guides to the policiesÂ’ economic effects. Recent theoretical...

Exogenous shocks to farmers’ consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For farm households, under labour market imperfections, such decisions are often interlinked. This calls for non-separable agricultural household models. According to this...

L’agriculture suisse du 20ème siècle a été fortement marquée par la rencontre entre idéologie modernisatrice, fondamentalisme agraire et représentations identitaires des agriculteurs. Ces trois éléments d’ordre culturel sont indispensables pour comprendre comment se sont forgées...

This article provide a comprehensive perspective in the analysis and evaluation of Agricultural Policies, highlighting the arguments That lay at the basis of Common Agricultural Policy reform in the context of Pressures for Reforming the Agricultural Policies in OECD member countries the, on one...

Soils are often subject to environmental shocks which are caused by negative extern- alities linked to overexploitation. We present a stochastic model of a dynamic agricultural economy where natural disasters are sizeable, multiple, and random. Expansion of agricultural activities raises...

Economists have a good understanding of intra-economic interdependence and a mature methodology of modeling it. Ecologists focus on the complex and sensitive interactions of species in ecosystems. This paper's objective is to suggest a new micro-foundation of ecosystem analysis based on economic...

Contributing to the ongoing debate on the future of European agriculture and rural areas, the study states that, in the light of the present historical contingency, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will need to support the reconciliation between the target objective of competitive...