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- Économie et Statistique - 444-445 - February 2012
Économie et Statistique - 444-445 - February 2012
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Farmland: a resource under pressure
Jean Cavailhès, Annie Mesrine et Céline Rouquette
Témoin de leur importance depuis toujours, la terre et l'agriculture sont aux origines de la science économique. Le foncier agricole est d'abord un moyen de production. Selon Adam Smith (1776), il est...
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Agricultural Land Policies in France since 1945
Jean-Pierre Boinon
In the two decades following the Second World War, France implemented a legal arsenal focused on two objectives: first, to make French agriculture more competitive by remedying its fragmentation into ...
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Increase in Proportion of Leased Farmland: A Land-Policy Success or Failure?
Frédéric Courleux
The main goal of farmland policy is arguably to offer incentives for productive investment, in particular by improving land fertility. In France, one of the pillars of this policy is the tenant-farmin...
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Farmers and Their Assets: Do They Fit the Standard Profile of the Self-Employed?
Céline Bessière, Caroline de Paoli, Bénédicte Gouraud et Muriel Roger
The self-employed evade inclusion in most analyses of social stratification. One possible way to gain further knowledge of their social position is to study their assets. Most self-employed individual...
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Regional Rural Land Markets Caught Between the Dynamics of Farm Holdings and Urbanization
Robert Levesque, Dimitri Liorit et Guillaume Pathier
Farmland and farm buildings are in demand from many competing players in the rural land market. When land is purchased for farming purposes, it is disputed between existing farmers-who seek to consoli...
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Urban Influence on Farmland Prices and its Impact on Agriculture
Jean Cavailhès, Mohamed Hilal et Pierre Wavresky
The many land-related issues in peri-urban areas include conversion of farmland, forests, and natural land to urban use, capital gains generated by urbanization, and conservation of land resources for...
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Impact of Coastal Development on Land Markets: Comparative Study of the Basque and Charente Coasts
Jeanne Dachary-Bernard, Frédéric Gaschet, Sandrine Lyser, Guillaume Pouyanne et Stéphane Virol
Land markets are the focus of intense competition between different uses, chiefly agriculture versus residential. Coastal areas, which are experiencing robust growth and generate specific amenities, a...
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Farmland Prices under Pressure from Urbanization
Lise Lefebvre et Céline Rouquette
The dividing lines in the agricultural land market did not change between 1995 and 2010. The distinction persists between a market of leased farmland acquired by farmers in crop-growing regions such a...
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Assessing the Effects of Environmental Zoning on Urban Growth and Farming
Ghislain Geniaux et Claude Napoléone
The promulgation of new environmental protection areas in regions most subject to urban pressure is sometimes criticized. Opponents argue that they reduce land supply and therefore harm the economic a...
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Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Due to Agriculture and Land Use in France: A Spatial Analysis
Raja Chakir, Stéphane de Cara et Bruno Vermont
We examine the spatial distribution of greenhouse-gas emissions due to agriculture and land use between 1993 and 2003 at the French département level. We begin by applying the method adopted in the na...
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Competition for Land: Theory and Empirical Determinants of Cross-Border Acquisitions of Farmland
Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger et Harris Selod
Since the 2007-2008 surge in agricultural prices, the media have been talking about a “competition for land” on a global scale, in which countries that import food commodities are reportedly trying to...
