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PhD topic

Environmental certifications and farm performances

The study the role of environmental certifications within agricultural supply chains and their utilization in public policies design. The objectives are as follows: 1) to identify the effects of adopting environmental certifications on the agronomic and economic performances of farms, 2) to analyze the attributes of contracts that can promote the adoption of environmental certifications, and 3) to identify the role of environmental certifications as instruments of public policies.

• Supervisor: Sabine Duvaleix, L'Insitut Agro Rennes-Angers, UMR 1302 SMART, 35000 Rennes, France

Research topics

• Environmental economics 
• Agricultural production economics
• Supply-chain organisation

Selected recent publications

• 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

• 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".
  MDPI, 12 (24), pp.10457

• Lassalas, M. (2020)
  "Coordination horizontale et coordination verticale peuvent-elles favoriser la production de services environnementaux à l’échelle des exploitations agricoles ? Revue de littérature et résultats préliminaires appliqués à la certification HVE".
  Mémoire de fin d’étude.

• Lassalas, M., Duvaleix-Treguer, S., Latruffe, L. (2020)
  "Comment les filières agricoles influencent-elles l’adoption de pratiques écologiques à l’échelle des exploitations ? Étude sur le secteur porcin".
  52ème Journées de la Recherche Porcine.

Work in progress

• Technical and economic effects of biodiversity standards on wheat production, with Sabine Duvaleix and Laure Latruffe
   
• Adoption of Environmental Contracts and Farms’ Productivity: An Insight Through the Adoption of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) and Organic Certification, with Alejandro Plastina and Sergio Lence
   
• Will The New Common Agricultural Policy Be Greener? The Case of France, with Hervé Guyomard, Vincent Chatellier, Cécile Détang-Dessendre and Pierre Dupraz
   
• Environmental practices and contracting, with Pascale Bazoche and Sabine Duvaleix