Julie Subervie
Environmental Economist
Welcome to my website!
I am a Research Scientist at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) where I have occupied a permanent research position since 2009.
I am currently a member of the Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier (CEEM), France, where I lead a number of research projects that deal with ecologically-innovative agriculture. The main one is FAST -- Facilitate public Action to exit from peSTicides, which aims to provide political and organizational solutions to reduce pesticide use in France.
Contact: julie.subervie@inrae.fr
Research Topics
My research focuses on the negative impacts of agriculture on the environment, with an emphasis on the efficiency of monetary and non-monetary schemes in improving farmers' decisions about natural resource conservation. I mostly do empirical work, including impact evaluation using microeconometric tools.
Selected articles
Demarchi, G., Subervie, J., Catry, T., Tritsch, I. (2023) Using publicly available remote sensing products to evaluate REDD+ projects in Brazil, Global Environmental Change, Volume 80.
Le Cotty Tristan, Elodie Maître d'Hôtel, Julie Subervie (2023) Inventory Credit to Enhance Food Security in Burkina Faso, World Development, Volume 161.
Authelet, Subervie, Meyfroidt, Asquith, Ezzine-de-Blas (2021) Economic, Pro-social and Pro-environmental Factors Influencing Participation in an Incentive-based Conservation Program in Bolivia, World Development, Volume 145, September 2021.
Simonet, G.; Subervie, J.; Ezzine-de-Blas, D.; Cromberg, M. & Duchelle, A. (2019), Effectiveness of a REDD+ Project in Reducing Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 101, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 211–229.
Le Cotty Tristan, Maître d'Hotel Elodie, Soubeyran Raphaël, Subervie Julie (2019) Inventory credit as a commitment device to save grain until the hunger season, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 101, Issue 4, July 2019, Pages 1115–1139.
Courtois, P. & Subervie, J. (2015), Farmer Bargaining Power and Market Information Services, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 97(3), 953-977. This paper received the Outstanding AJAE Article Award in 2016.
Subervie, J. & Vagneron, I. (2013), A drop of water in the Indian Ocean? The impact of GlobalGap Certification on lychee farmers in Madagascar, World Development 50, 57–73.
Chabé-Ferret, S. & Subervie, J. (2013), 'How much green for the buck? Estimating additional and windfall effects of French agro-environmental schemes by DID-matching', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65(1), 12-27.
Focus on Social Experiments
Greater Flexibility in PES: Evidence from an RCT in the Amazon
Early Adopters, Peers Leaders and the Diffusion of Agroecological Knowledge
Participation of pesticide retailers in the agro-ecological transition
When Nudges backfire : Evidence from an RCT to Boost Biological Pest Control
Can we nudge farmers into saving water? Evidence from a randomised experiment