La place des foires et marchés parmi les pôles français de commercialisation des produits agricoles

Gabriel Wackermann

Économie rurale, 1977, vol. 122

Abstract: The decline or the disappearance of a considerable number of traditional agricultural fairs and markets and the appearance of new forms of commercialisation since the end of the second world war, now enable us, retrospectively, to understand better the importance of exchanges based on the physical meeting of rural and urban participants. The economic role of the market is accompanied by a social function, by habits that express aspirations, the need for human contact, conceptions of life in relation to others, socio-economic superiorities and situations of conflict. In opposition to the integrated - so called « abstract » - markets, which tend to monopolize agricultural production, to level down and standardize its commercialization, and to wrest from the farming world a certain control of economic mechanisms, these exist organized physical markets which provide a modern solution to the problems raised by small-scale farms and which remain the expression of a desire to preserve regional, sub-regional or local vitality.

Keywords: Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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