You can check our new paper in Environmental and Resource Economics with Pierre Dupraz (@SmartLereco, @INRAE_France) in which we measure the productivity of biodiversity and its interaction with fertilizers and pesticides link.springer.com/article/10.100…
We measure biodiversity using habitat indicators (crop diversity and permanent grassland proportion) and estimate several system of production functions (with +/- detailed specifications) in 1000 farms of northwest France #econometrics
Highlights: 1) crop diversity is an input for cereals & milk 2) permanent grassland is an input for cereals when crop diversity is low 3) crop diversity & permanent grassland can substitute each other 4) they can also substitute with pesticides & fertilizers
This paper corresponds to the first chapter of my PhD thesis. This is the single one that I wrote with my supervisor.
Really happy that Pierre and I finally get something togehter 🥳
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It's finally out ! With Alex Gohin (@SmartLereco), we have a new paper in @AnnalsOf in which we measure the market and environmental impacts (noinpoint source pollutions, imported deforestation, carbon emissions) of French #pesticide policies: jstor.org/stable/10.1560…
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What did we do on this paper?
First, we conducted a structural econometric estimation of the impact of output and input prices on the farmers' production decisions, including land-use decisions and pesticide applications.
What's new there?
Well, we used a detailed database from @InseeFr where all farming types (including vineyards and fruit production, which use many pesticides, but also breeding farms) are included for the whole France from 1990 to 2015.
We have a new paper out in Ecological Economics in which we examined the potential success of coordination for biological control among farmers from a real landscape (from the North of Brittany - with hedgerows and everything - for the ones who know). #NoPesticides (1/5)
I am personally a bit happier than usual for a publication because this is my first 100% interdisciplinary paper : Claudine is landscape agronomist, Hugues is from computer science and, well, economics here. (2/5)
This was also the first paper I started during my PhD thesis. And the last one I finished... (3/5)