The volatility of hog prices is high compared to most agricultural commodities. However, European hog producers do not benefit from any agricultural policy support. Through the continuous production process and induced selling activity on spot markets, producers benefit from a natural moving average product pricing. In addition, asymmetric price risk management is able to increase the expected utility of risk adverse hog producers. But, if there is a futures contract at the European Exchange (EUREX), there is no option market and as a consequence no derivative contracts on the European hog market. The article is presenting how financial intermediaries could offer an innovative derivative contract to complement the “naturall ” steady price of the French hog producers.
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Cet article propose une analyse de la contractualisation des mesures agro-environnementales herbageres par les eleveurs et de la diffusion geographique du processus de contractualisation. Les donnees individuelles mobilisees sont geo-referencees et concernent l'ensemble des eleveurs de bovins ou ovins/caprins francais beneficiant d'au moins une mesure PAC du premier pilier et ayant contracte ou non une telle mesure. Une base de donnees territorialisees de contexte (Observatoire des programmes communautaires de developpement rural) est utilisee pour completer l'information. Dans une premiere etape, les resultats provenant de l'estimation de modeles probit sur ces donnees individuelles montrent que l'introduction de variables de contexte en complement des caracteristiques individuelles permet d'obtenir une bonne prediction des taux de contractualisation a un niveau geographique fin (infra-cantonal). Dans une deuxieme etape, la localisation des individus est prise en compte au travers d'un effet de voisinage dans un modele probit spatial. Les resultats montrent que les effets de proximite spatiale dus a la diversite geographique des systemes de production et aux reseaux sociaux s'expriment essentiellement au niveau de la commune et de micro-zones (infra-cantonales).
{"title":"Contractualisation et diffusion spatiale des mesures agro-environnementales herbagères","authors":"G. Allaire, É. Cahuzac, Michel Simioni","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.207796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.207796","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article propose une analyse de la contractualisation des mesures agro-environnementales herbageres par les eleveurs et de la diffusion geographique du processus de contractualisation. Les donnees individuelles mobilisees sont geo-referencees et concernent l'ensemble des eleveurs de bovins ou ovins/caprins francais beneficiant d'au moins une mesure PAC du premier pilier et ayant contracte ou non une telle mesure. Une base de donnees territorialisees de contexte (Observatoire des programmes communautaires de developpement rural) est utilisee pour completer l'information. Dans une premiere etape, les resultats provenant de l'estimation de modeles probit sur ces donnees individuelles montrent que l'introduction de variables de contexte en complement des caracteristiques individuelles permet d'obtenir une bonne prediction des taux de contractualisation a un niveau geographique fin (infra-cantonal). Dans une deuxieme etape, la localisation des individus est prise en compte au travers d'un effet de voisinage dans un modele probit spatial. Les resultats montrent que les effets de proximite spatiale dus a la diversite geographique des systemes de production et aux reseaux sociaux s'expriment essentiellement au niveau de la commune et de micro-zones (infra-cantonales).","PeriodicalId":170092,"journal":{"name":"Revue d’études en Agriculture et Environnement","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129591919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4074/S1966960711001032
B. Lelyon, V. Chatellier, K. Daniel
In this paper, we discuss the cross-effects on the productive strategy of French dairy farms due to the decoupling and to price variation. A model based on mathematical programming has been developed to determine how dairy farmers might re-evaluate their systems to identify an optimal production plan. The model is applied to four types of dairy farms in order to analyze the impact of the reform depending on farm’s activities. The simulations point out how the implementation of the decoupling encourages farmers to increase the share of grassland. However, the increase in cereal prices is a strong incentive to intensify forage production to free up land for crop production. Finally, after four years of decoupling, this study helps to put into perspective the theoretical effects of decoupling and the actual choices made by farmers. This article identifies six factors which could explain these differences: the longterm production requirements, the eligibility criteria for the direct payment, the sociology/psychology of the farmer, the anticipation of a new reform, the trade organization and the value of property assets.
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This article addresses the process of growing integration of environmental concerns (referred to as “ecologisation”) in European agricultural policies, and suggests a framework for assessing its effects on agri-food systems: marginal adaptation of the industrial model or ecologically based redesign of production? Following the paths of agro-environmental schemes from the debates within agricultural sciences to their implementation on theround in France and Switzerland enables to point out various scientific, political and social features for introducing nature conservation plans within production systems. The impacts and limits of ecologisation are assessed by using the contrasted conceptual frameworks of the Ecological Modernisation and Treadmill of Production theories. We conclude putting the emphasis on the need to carefully take in account the relations between the different spatial scales involved in this evaluation, from the local one to the international one.
{"title":"L'écologisation de la politique agricole européenne. Verdissement ou refondation des systèmes agro-alimentaires ?","authors":"C. Deverre, C. Marie","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.207798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.207798","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the process of growing integration of environmental concerns (referred to as “ecologisation”) in European agricultural policies, and suggests a framework for assessing its effects on agri-food systems: marginal adaptation of the industrial model or ecologically based redesign of production? Following the paths of agro-environmental schemes from the debates within agricultural sciences to their implementation on theround in France and Switzerland enables to point out various scientific, political and social features for introducing nature conservation plans within production systems. The impacts and limits of ecologisation are assessed by using the contrasted conceptual frameworks of the Ecological Modernisation and Treadmill of Production theories. We conclude putting the emphasis on the need to carefully take in account the relations between the different spatial scales involved in this evaluation, from the local one to the international one.","PeriodicalId":170092,"journal":{"name":"Revue d’études en Agriculture et Environnement","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122473076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Le monde agricole a longtemps ete caracterise par une relative fermeture sur lui-meme. Fermeture professionnelle qui laisse peu de place aux nouveaux entrants d’origines sociales diverses, fermeture conjugale avec un choix relativement circonscrit aux filles d’agriculteur et restreint par la demographie des campagnes. La montee de l’heterogamie, non seulement professionnelle (les femmes travaillent de plus en plus a l’exterieur de l’exploitation) mais sociale (les femmes sont de moins en moins issues du milieu agricole), remet en question cette image. Cette ouverture conjugale n’est pas uniforme : les agriculteurs des secteurs les plus specialises, comme la cerealiculture, sont plus enclins a avoir une conjointe exterieure a l’agriculture ; elle sera la partenaire dans une vie familiale qui ne se confondra pas avec celle de l’exploitation. Dans les secteurs moins specialises – comme les systemes de polyculture elevage ou dans la production de lait avec un fort travail d’astreinte – ils ont plus tendance a avoir des conjointes filles d’agriculteurs qui travaillent avec eux, bref des collaboratrices dans une vie familiale centree sur le travail.
{"title":"Les choix des conjoints en agriculture","authors":"C. Giraud, J. Rémy","doi":"10.3406/reae.2008.1946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/reae.2008.1946","url":null,"abstract":"Le monde agricole a longtemps ete caracterise par une relative fermeture sur lui-meme. Fermeture professionnelle qui laisse peu de place aux nouveaux entrants d’origines sociales diverses, fermeture conjugale avec un choix relativement circonscrit aux filles d’agriculteur et restreint par la demographie des campagnes. La montee de l’heterogamie, non seulement professionnelle (les femmes travaillent de plus en plus a l’exterieur de l’exploitation) mais sociale (les femmes sont de moins en moins issues du milieu agricole), remet en question cette image. Cette ouverture conjugale n’est pas uniforme : les agriculteurs des secteurs les plus specialises, comme la cerealiculture, sont plus enclins a avoir une conjointe exterieure a l’agriculture ; elle sera la partenaire dans une vie familiale qui ne se confondra pas avec celle de l’exploitation. Dans les secteurs moins specialises – comme les systemes de polyculture elevage ou dans la production de lait avec un fort travail d’astreinte – ils ont plus tendance a avoir des conjointes filles d’agriculteurs qui travaillent avec eux, bref des collaboratrices dans une vie familiale centree sur le travail.","PeriodicalId":170092,"journal":{"name":"Revue d’études en Agriculture et Environnement","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126773028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
[paper in French] This paper focuses on the trajectory of the BCG vaccine used against bovine tuberculosis in France between 1921 and 1963. It shows how public health issues related to this disease are intimately linked with other issues, whether professional, industrial or of political economy. First, it analyses the way the Pasteur Institute, veterinarians and farmers got mobilized to transform the French legislation in order to gain more direct responsibilities in the control of bovine tuberculosis between 1930 and 1950. Second, it studies how farmers’ appropriation of prophylactic techniques contributed to redefine the sanitary policy against this disease in a global context of agricultural modernization promoted by the post-war French government, whereas at the same time, the new research orientation of the Pasteur Institute led to the abandon of the veterinary vaccine.
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[paper in French] Open-access is probably the main cause of crowding on recreational sites, especially when they are attractive and close to urban areas. In this case, theory predicts equilibrium and optimum differ due to externality of congestion. Whereas Fisher and Krutilla (1972) caracterized optimum and equilibrium in monosite models, recent works on congestion in multiple sites models (Random Utility Models) only study equilibrium and the repartition of visits between sites in an empirical way. Our theoretical framework allows us to go further and derive visitation equilibrium and visitation optimum in a two sites Random Utility Model with participation. Sites differ by quality. We use a recent measure of welfare (Erlander, 2005), essential to calculate optimum. At equilibrium, we show that participation is too high and that the high quality site is too much visited. We introduce optimal taxes to resolve this issue. Because this solution does not appear very realistic in the French case, we also examine impacts of improvements of quality on welfare. An illustration is finally proposed with a multinomial logit model estimated with data on recreational fishing
{"title":"La valeur récréative de la forêt en France : une approche par les coûts de déplacement","authors":"S. Garcia, J. Jacob","doi":"10.3406/reae.2010.1938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/reae.2010.1938","url":null,"abstract":"[paper in French] Open-access is probably the main cause of crowding on recreational sites, especially when they are attractive and close to urban areas. In this case, theory predicts equilibrium and optimum differ due to externality of congestion. Whereas Fisher and Krutilla (1972) caracterized optimum and equilibrium in monosite models, recent works on congestion in multiple sites models (Random Utility Models) only study equilibrium and the repartition of visits between sites in an empirical way. Our theoretical framework allows us to go further and derive visitation equilibrium and visitation optimum in a two sites Random Utility Model with participation. Sites differ by quality. We use a recent measure of welfare (Erlander, 2005), essential to calculate optimum. At equilibrium, we show that participation is too high and that the high quality site is too much visited. We introduce optimal taxes to resolve this issue. Because this solution does not appear very realistic in the French case, we also examine impacts of improvements of quality on welfare. An illustration is finally proposed with a multinomial logit model estimated with data on recreational fishing","PeriodicalId":170092,"journal":{"name":"Revue d’études en Agriculture et Environnement","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129546959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
– Developper le potentiel d’adoption des matieres organiques pour ameliorer les productions agricoles revient a conferer a l’agriculture une nouvelle fonction et a integrer la question environnementale a l’exercice du metier d’agriculteur. Que se passe-t-il lors de la rencontre entre le projet d’associer l’agriculture a la gestion des dechets de la ville et les publics auxquels il s’adresse ? A quelles conditions l’agriculture periurbaine peut-elle contribuer a integrer les enjeux environnementaux qui lui sont assignes ?
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Janvier 2008, les negociations multilaterales a l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) sont toujours bloquees sur le chapitre agricole. La pression internationale est forte sur l’Union europeenne (UE) pour qu’elle ouvre plus largement ses marches agricoles alors que celle-ci craint que cela ne conduise a remettre en cause son modele agricole europeen. En parallele, l’UE propose de developper l’utilisation des biocarburants dans les activites europeennes de transport terrestre, ce qui aurait un effet benefique pour son secteur agricole. L’objectif general de cet article est d’evaluer empiriquement les effets de ces deux scenarios pour apprecier dans quelle mesure la politique europeenne de promotion des biocarburants pourrait faciliter un accord agricole a l’OMC en attenuant ses effets redoutes. Ces evaluations sont conduites avec un modele d’equilibre general calculable qui permet d’en mesurer les impacts sur les differents secteurs agricoles et agroalimentaires europeens. Les resultats attendus des simulations montrent les effets benefiques du developpement des biocarburants et negatifs d’un accord a l’OMC sur les revenus agricoles europeens. Ils montrent surtout qu’en valeur absolue les seconds effets dominent les premiers et qu’ils sont tres contrastes entre les differents secteurs. Enfin, les analyses montrent l’attention qui doit etre portee a la definition des produits sensibles en fonction de la situation des marches: l’interet du secteur agricole europeen serait en particulier de retenir le bioethanol dans les produits sensibles a la place du sucre
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Some consumers are willing to pay extra for food if it is of domestic origin. This paper theoretically examines the consequences of such home biased behavior for agricultural policy, assuming that the policy is decided by the median voter. The analysis is conducted in the framework of a small open economy, with a Ricardian production structure. Consumers differ with respect to how much extra they are willing to pay for a domestically produced agricultural good. For a tariff we find that, if there would be some home biased choices (no matter how few) in a laissez-faire regime, the political equilibrium will imply a strictly positive tariff. This tariff is high if the productivity in the agricultural sector of this country is low. A political equilibrium with a strictly positive subsidy requires stronger home bias than a tariff.
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