Inra Sciences Sociales: Recherches en Economie et Sociologie Rurales

Inra Sciences Sociales: Recherches en Economie et Sociologie Rurales

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Publisher: Inra (Instiute National de la Recherche Agronomique)

The Social Sciences, Agriculture and Food, Space and Environment Department
at INRA (SAE2) has been commissioned to describe the social and economic
world forms of organization, to produce analytical frameworks for their
understanding, and to provide the conceptual and operational tools to
enlighten public and private actors in the fields related to production,
markets and agricultural exchanges, transformation and distribution of farm
and agro-food products, food consumption, environment and natural resources,
land use and rural development and science-society relations.

The Social Sciences at INRA (SAE2) contribute to the establishing of
scientific considerations on citizens and their relations with agricultural,
rural and agro-food sectors, food safety, environmental, spatial and
territorial concerns. They help to raise scientific argumentation in social
and economic fields within the framework definition and evaluation of public
policy, international negotiations, relationship between economic actors and
public debates.

Inside its own research and within a wide range of various mechanisms and
cooperating approaches, the SAE2 Department takes into account the progress
in the fields of biotechnical sciences and symmetrically the other
departments of INRA integrate the economic and social realities into their
research.

The objective of the neswletter (of four pages on paper) is to report on the
recent work completed in the Department Social Sciences, Agriculture and
Food, Espace and Environment of the INRA. Created in January 1988, this
two-monthly publication is addressed to all those whose profession requires
that they be informed of the assets of research in social sciences in the
fields covered by the department. It interests the professionals of
agriculture particularly, of the food industriess, specialized teachers,
researchers, students and journalists. The main part of the results is
presented in a condensed way by the researchers but includes quantified
support, without excessive simplification.

ISSN 0988-3266

Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et Alimentation, Espace et
Environnement de l'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Mission des publications
65 bd de Brandebourg
94205 Ivry-sur-Seine Cedex
Tél. (1) 49 59 69 00

Content freely accessible in PDF format.

Current Issue: 2006 No. 3

Date: 25 August 2006