Farmers' decision to use pesticides

Work Package 1


Topics


  1. Critical survey

  2. Drivers of pesticide use

  3. Pesticide-saving practices

  4. Crop production models

Latest publications

Bontemps, Christophe, Douadia Bougherara, Céline Nauges (2021) "Do Risk Preferences Really Matter? The Case of Pesticide Use in Agriculture" Environmental Modeling & Assessment 8(3).

Bougherara, D., Friesen, L., & Nauges, C. (2021) "Risk Taking with Left- and Right-Skewed Lotteries" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Previous publications

Aghajanzadeh-Darzi, Parisa, Pierre-Alain Jayet, and Athanasios Petsakos. 2017. “Improvement of a Bio-Economic Mathematical Programming Model in the Case of On-Farm Source Inputs and Outputs.Journal of Quantitative Economics 15(3):489–508.

Ballot, Rémy, Chantal Loyce, Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy, Aïcha Ronceux, Julie Gombert, Claire Lesur-Dumoulin, and Laurence Guichard. 2018. “First Cropping System Model Based on Expert-Knowledge Parameterization.” Agronomy for Sustainable Development 38(3):33.

Bareille, François and Elodie Letort. 2018. “How Do Farmers Manage Crop Biodiversity? A Dynamic Acreage Model with Productive Feedback.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 45(4):617–39.

Bayramoglu, Basak and Raja Chakir. 2016. “The Impact of High Crop Prices on the Use of Agro-Chemical Inputs in France: A Structural Econometric Analysis.” Land Use Policy 55:204–11.

Blazy, Jean-Marc, Alain Carpentier, and Alban Thomas. 2011. “The Willingness to Adopt Agro-Ecological Innovations: Application of Choice Modelling to Caribbean Banana Planters.Ecological Economics 72:140–50.

Bougherara, Douadia, Xavier Gassmann, Laurent Piet, and Arnaud Reynaud. 2017. “Structural Estimation of Farmers’ Risk and Ambiguity Preferences: A Field Experiment.” European Review of Agricultural Economics 44(5):782–808.

Cara, Stéphane De, Loïc Henry, and Pierre-Alain Jayet. 2018. “Optimal Coverage of an Emission Tax in the Presence of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification Costs.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 89:71–93.

Carpentier, Alain and Elodie Letort. 2014. “Multicrop Production Models with Multinomial Logit Acreage Shares.” Environmental and Resource Economics 59(4):537–59.

Chakir, Raja and Julie Le Gallo. 2013. “Predicting Land Use Allocation in France: A Spatial Panel Data Analysis.” Ecological Economics 92:114–25.

Chèze, B., M. David, and V. Martinet. 2020. “Understanding Farmers’ Reluctance to Reduce Pesticide Use: A Choice Experiment.” Ecological Economics 167:14

Femenia, Fabienne and Elodie Letort. 2016. “How to Significantly Reduce Pesticide Use: An Empirical Evaluation of the Impacts of Pesticide Taxation Associated with a Change in Cropping Practice.” Ecological Economics 125(C):27–37.

Humblot, Pierre, Pierre-Alain Jayet, and Athanasios Petsakos. 2017. “Farm-Level Bio-Economic Modeling of Water and Nitrogen Use: Calibrating Yield Response Functions with Limited Data.” Agricultural Systems 151:47–60.

Jayet, Pierre-Alain and Elvire Petel. 2015. “Economic Valuation of the Nitrogen Content of Urban Organic Residue by the Agricultural Sector.Ecological Economics 120:272–81.

Jouan, Julia, Aude Ridier and Matthieu Carof. 2020. “SYNERGY: A regional bio-economic model analyzing farm-to-farm exchanges and legume production to enhance agricultural sustainability. Ecological Economics 175.

Koutchadé, Philippe, Alain Carpentier, and Fabienne Femenia. 2018. “Modeling Heterogeneous Farm Responses to European Union Biofuel Support with a Random Parameter Multicrop Model.American Journal of Agricultural Economics 100(2):434–55.

Koutchadé, P., A. Carpentier, and F. Femenia. 2020. “Modelling corners, kinks and jumps in crop acreage choices: impacts of the UE support to protein crops.” Forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Lesur-Dumoulin, Claire, Laurent Abel, Raymond Reau, Laurence Guichard, Rémy Ballot, Marie-Helene Jeuffroy, and Chantal Loyce. 2018. “Co-Design and Ex Ante Assessment of Cropping System Prototypes Including Energy Crops in Eastern France.” Biomass and Bioenergy 116:205–15.

Ridier, Aude, Mohamed Ben El Ghali, Genevieve Nguyen, and Charilaos Kephaliacos. 2013. “The Role of Risk Aversion and Labor Constraints in the Adoption of Low Input Practices Supported by the CAP Green Payments in Cash Crop Farms.Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies 94:195–219.