Refereed journal publications
Lassalas M., Duvaleix S., Latruffe L. (2024) The technical and economic effects of biodiversity standards on wheat production. European Review of Agricultural Economics , 51 (2), 275-308.
Lassalas M., Plastina A., Lence S. (2024) Does the Adoption of Environmental Contracts Affect Farms’ Productivity and Efficiency? An Insight through the Adoption of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) and Organic Certification. Revue Economique, 75(5), 945-974.
Lassalas M., Guyomard H., Détang-Dessendre C., Chatellier V., Dupraz P. (2024) The implementation of the new Common Agricultural Policy in France will not be environmentally ambitious. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1–26.
Quoted in the media: Web-agri 09.2023 ; AGRA PRESSE 10.2023 ; La Voix Biolactéee 12.2023
SPACE (International Livestock Show) presentation - panel discussion "CAP, Green Deal, or the challenging balance between economy and environment"
Lassalas M., Chatellier V., Détang-Dessendre C., Dupraz P., Guyomard H. (2023) L’accès à l’éco-régime français de la PAC par la voie de la certification environnementale. Economie Rurale (384), p. 61-78.
Quoted in the media: La France Agricole 07.2023
Other publications
Duvaleix S., Lassalas M., Latruffe L., Konstantidelli V., Tzouramani I. (2020) Adopting Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices and the Role of Quality Labels and Producer Organisations: A Qualitative Analysis Based on Two European Case Studies. Sustainability, MDPI, 12 (24), 10457.
Nunes S.M., Bayer C., Lassalas M., Michelon G.M., Schaitz L.H., Biasolo R., Civiero M., Ribeiro-Filho H.M.N. (2021) Effects of ground corn and Acacia mearnsii tannin extract supplementation on nitrogen excretion and nitrous oxide emissions from sheep. Livestock Science, 246, 104458.
PhD thesis
Lassalas M. (2023) Impacts of environmental standards on farms.
Work in progress
Organic Farming Adoption in the French wine sector: Can Cooperatives Make a Difference?
with Pascale Bazoche and Sabine Duvaleix
In France, organic farming adoption has slowed despite ambitious targets set by the European Green Deal and the French National Strategic Plan. The role that cooperatives, as key stakeholders, can play in encouraging the adoption of environmental practices remains underexplored in the literature. This study examines how they may promote organic farming by designing contracts.
Using a discrete choice experiment with winegrowers from a wine cooperative, we assess preferences for contract attributes such as environmental requirements, advisory services, partial vineyard contracting, price premiums, and yield-loss compensation mechanisms. We choose the wine sector as it faces a major challenge in reducing pesticide use.
Results show that winegrowers are highly responsive to market-based economic incentives such as a 30% premium and compensation options for yield loss. They have heterogeneous preferences regarding the inclusion of environmental requirements within the farming contracts. A latent class analysis identified three groups of winegrowers: a majority are Adverse to change (61%), other are specifically Reluctant to organic (26%), and the smallest group is Organic lovers (13%). While cooperatives' farming contracts can be a potential instrument to increase uptake of organic farming, additional tools and policies are needed, at least in the short-term, to scale up the uptake of organic farming.
Do eco-schemes make the CAP greener?
with Norbert R., Guyomard H., Polman N., Pufahl A., Roel J., Runge T., Schreuder R., Sinabell F. and van Selm F.E.
Is there a trade-off between sustainable claims in consumer purchasing decisions? Insights from Scanner Data and Discrete Choice Modeling
with Fadhuile A., Carpentier A., and Boizot-Szantai C.
Under the FAST (Facilitate public Action to exit from peSTicides) research project funded by the French ANR as part of the Priority Research Program 'Growing and Protecting Crops Differently'. Work Package 3 - Food demand, Markets and Trade.