The institutional environment as an essential support to agro ecology: the case of the formal market gardeners in Mayotte

Magali Aubert (), Orane Debrune (), Joël Huat () and Laurent Parrot ()
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Magali Aubert: Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Orane Debrune: UPE - EURL - European Union Reference Laboratory for equine diseases
Joël Huat: Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Laurent Parrot: Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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Abstract: Sanitary requirements are strengthening in response to consumers' expectations, European regulations and private actor's requirements, through retailers, in particular. Farmers are directly concerned by the dynamic, which has emerged for the last twenty years, since specifically the "mad cow" crisis. Mayotte is a French overseas department since 2011 and an ultraperipherial region of Europe since 2014. It is supposed to comply to European requirements. However, numerous studies highlight that the retrofit between practices and sanitary expectations is not already achieved. In order to answer this inadequacy in a context where almost 80% of the total production is informal, we have surveyed 47 tomatoes producers. This production is very sensitive to pests and particularly to tomatoes fly during the dry season, which can destroy all or some parts of the harvest. We demonstrate that more than producers' individual characteristics, numerous exogenous factor could help understand the inadequacy observed. Institutional environment could be a brake as well as a leverage to setting up more environmental friendly practices.

Keywords: tomato; agro-ecology; formal agriculture; logit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12-14
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Published in 11. Journées de Recherches en Sciences Sociales (JRSS), Société Française d'Economie Rurale (SFER). Paris, FRA.; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). FRA.; Institut Supérieur d'Agriculture et d'Agroalimentaire Rhône-Alpes (ISARA Lyon). FRA.; Laboratoire d'Etudes Rurales (LER). FRA.; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA). FRA., Dec 2017, Lyon, France. 22 p

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