Contracts in agricultural, forestry and fisheries value chains

Acknowledgements

Foreword (Patrick Rey, professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics)

Foreword (Yves Trégaro, mediating executive for negociations in agrifood sector)

Foreword (Philippe Mauguin, CEO of INRAE)

Foreword (Pierre Dupraz, chief of the departement of Economics and Social sciences, and Christophe Soulard, chief of the department of Sciences for Action and Transition, INRAE )

Introduction

(Marie-Benoît Magrini, Raphaèle-Jeanne Aubin-Brouté, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache,Gérard Marty, Annick Vignes)

1. Why take an interest in contracts in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors?

2. How can we study market exchanges under contracts without dedicated public surveys?

3. Contract or market?

4. A variety of contracts

5. Which public policies are needed for contractualisation?

6. Importance of a common framework for analysing contractual relations between law, economics and sociology

Part I: Theoretical background

Chapter 1. Law approach to analysing contracts

(Raphaèle-Jeanne Aubin-Brouté, Lucas Bettoni)

1. Markets for agricultural products under the law

2. Agricultural trade relations under the law

Conclusion

References

Chapter 2. Economic approach to analysing contracts

(Olivier Bonroy, Emmanuel Raynaud)

1. Purposes of the contract

2. Designing contractual clauses: the how of the contract

3. Contract limits

4. Beyond the contract: what are the challenges for the agricultural sector?

Conclusion

References

Chapter 3. Sociological approach to analysing contracts

(Thomas Debril, Gérard Marty)

1. The institutional embedding of the contract

2. The negotiated contract: the endogenous dynamics of rule-making

Conclusion

References

Part II: Case analyses of contracts in the agricultural sector, forestry and fisheries

Chapter 4: How does contractualisation meet the challenges facing livestock farms?

(Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Boris Duflot, Simon Fourdin, Lisa Le Clerc, Gérard You)

1. A variety of contractual relationships

2. Contractualisation: a solution to which risks?

Conclusion

References

Chapter 5: What role do contracts play in regulating the dairy sector?

(Marie Dervillé, Melise Bouroullec-Machado, Amanda Ferreira Guimarães)

Introduction

1. Before 2008, residual informal contracts

2. Contractual regulation of the dairy sector after 2008

3. Contracts as a support for quality differentiation strategies for dairy products

Conclusion

References

Chapter 6. Production contracts for harvest crops and market differentiation strategies

(Marie-Benoît Magrini, Aude Ridier, Pierre Triboulet)

1. Definitions, terms and conditions, and reasons for using production contracts

2. Increasing the efficiency of commercial relations

3. Reinforcing tangible and intangible investments

4. Looking ahead: production contracts for transition?

Conclusion

References

Chapter 7. In the seed sector, contracts to encourage innovation

(Aline Fugeray-Scarbel, Adrien Hervouet, Benaissa Larbi, Stéphane Lemarié)

1. General organisation of private activities in the French field seed industry

2. Contractualisation linked to seed production

3. Intellectual property contracts

4. Contractualisation linked to research activities

5. New challenges linked to the agro-ecological transition

Conclusion

References

Chapter 8. Timber supply contracts from French public forests: a mechanism to serve the sector?

(Gérard Marty, Ahmed Barkaoui, Arnaud Dragicevic)

1. Supply contracts

2. A scheme to promote wood supply and develop the forestry and wood industry

3. A contested market mechanism

Conclusion

References

Chapter 9. Managing the sustainability of fisheries resources through the market: what role for contracts?

(Annick Vignes)

1. Unregulated production, trust and informal contracts

2. Common governance and the social contract

3. The limits of the social contract and the spread of commercial contracts

Conclusion

References

(Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Raphaèle-Jeanne Aubin-Brouté, Marie-Benoît Magrini,Gérard Marty, Annick Vignes)

References

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