Les contrats de production en grandes cultures. Coordination et incitations par les coopératives

Cholez, Célia; Magrini, Marie-Benoît; Galliano, Danielle

doi:10.4000/economierurale.5260

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“…Our results are consistent with those of Charrier et al [17], who concluded that contracts with guaranteed prices helped increase the spread of diversifying crops such as linseed. In addition, our results for transaction costs were similar to those of the study [28]. Nonetheless, the contracts we studied seem to decrease transaction costs less than those in the sample of the study [28].…”

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“…In addition, our results for transaction costs were similar to those of the study [28]. Nonetheless, the contracts we studied seem to decrease transaction costs less than those in the sample of the study [28].…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Many empirical studies have been performed on contracting in the agricultural sector, on both animal and plant production [24][25][26][27], but few of them have focused on contracting in the legume agro-food chain. In the study [28], production contracts for field crops were analyzed between cooperatives and their members, some of whom produced legumes. They showed that these contracts can incite farmers to diversify their crops by offering an attractive payment system and that collecting these new crops requires specific investments by cooperatives.…”

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Economic Drivers of Legume Production: Approached via Opportunity Costs and Transaction Costs

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Crop diversification is one of the main mechanisms identified for developing a more sustainable agriculture. Legumes are interesting diversifying crops to add to crop rotations because of their many positive impacts on agronomic systems. Nonetheless, production of these crops remains relatively low in Europe, in part because of socio-economic factors. The objective of this study was to analyze how the economic attractiveness of legumes may be influenced by two factors: opportunity costs and transaction costs. The method is divided into three steps. First, we built a database of opportunity costs of legumes from a literature review. Second, we qualitatively characterized transaction costs associated with exchange of legumes between producers and collectors. Third, we qualitatively analyzed if contracts currently offered in western France decreased transaction costs. For comparison, transaction costs of linseed were also studied. Our results indicate that legumes are economically attractive at the rotation scale due to zero or negative opportunity costs, but that their transaction costs are high. The contracts studied do not decrease these transaction costs sufficiently, in particular because uncertainties in price remain high in half of these contracts. Downstream differentiation seems necessary to decrease transaction costs by creating added value along the entire agro-food chain.

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“…The degree of contractualisation in the supply chain also influenced the ability to innovate. The form of contractualisation will determine the degree of vertical coordination of actors in a supply chain (Cholez et al 2017). But weak vertical coordination can lock the sociotechnical system against radical innovations because the added value is not evenly distributed to all actors, especially farmers (Fares et al 2012).…”

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Innovations developed within supply chains hinder territorial ecological transition: the case of a watershed in Martinique

Rossa¹,

Bail

Mottes³

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Some chemical herbicides used by farmers in Martinique contaminate rivers. Agroecological innovations exist, some of which are known by the stakeholders but are not systematically used at the scale of the watersheds concerned. Our hypothesis is that the sociotechnical agricultural supply chain system built over the last 30 years restricts innovations for herbicide use in weed management systems, blocking the sustainable transition of territories. The sociotechnical system theory was chosen as the analysis framework to identify obstacles in supply chains. As the issue cut across the supply chains at the scale of the territory, this framework was completed, for the first time, by a study of the existing links between supply chain innovation strategies and the territory through its spatial, organisational and conceptual dimensions. Interviews with supply chain actors and a review of the grey literature were analysed using this framework. We show that the development of innovations, their type and the network of actors producing them were defined within each supply chain, according to their own objectives, with few exchanges at all levels of the territory. The efficiency of such development depended on the extent to which the supply chains are structured and, particularly, on their degree of integration and the strength of relationships between stakeholders. Indeed, watershed scale objectives are not taken into consideration in changes of practice. In this way, we identified lock-in constraining innovations design taking into account the objectives of the impact area (watershed) across supply chains for the first time.

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“…This therefore raises the issue of the scope of the supply chains covered by the contracts, which is often that of niches, as in the case studied. Moreover, the agro-industrial nature of the supply chain reveals the underlying tension between the need for situated technical knowledge to diversify farmers' production systems, on the one hand, and the desire to standardise the products harvested in order to meet the requirements of industrial survey we conducted on 20 cooperative leaders, in the large-scale cropping sector, in France, production contracts represent 0-40% of collection, according to organisations (Cholez et al 2017). transformation, on the other hand.…”

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A Plurality of Viewpoints Regarding the Uncertainties of the Agroecological Transition

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Girard

Angeon

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Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

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The concept of agroecological transition revives debates on how to deal with complexity and uncertainty. While the adaptive approach and its "adjust along the way" principle have been adopted as a relevant general framework to deal with partially irreducible uncertainty, the different approaches to the definition and management of uncertainty are rarely explicitated. In this chapter we highlight the diversity of these stances through brief presentations of research work that is related to agroecology and sustainable development, and anchored in various disciplines (modelling, management sciences, economics, ecology). This gives us a first glimpse of the variety of concepts used to describe uncertainty, characterising nature and the different approaches to manage it. It shows also that these definitions of uncertainties, clearly derived from particular disciplines or school of thought, can be applied together in a more or less complementary way. Finally, we discuss how

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Les contrats de production en grandes cultures. Coordination et incitations par les coopératives

Cited by 16 publications

References 38 publications

Economic Drivers of Legume Production: Approached via Opportunity Costs and Transaction Costs

Economic Drivers of Legume Production: Approached via Opportunity Costs and Transaction Costs

Innovations developed within supply chains hinder territorial ecological transition: the case of a watershed in Martinique

A Plurality of Viewpoints Regarding the Uncertainties of the Agroecological Transition

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