@article{Doussan:162491, recid = {162491}, author = {Doussan, Isabelle}, title = {Between restrictions and incentives: legal analysis of the reasoned agriculture qualification}, journal = {INRA Sciences Sociales}, address = {2004-10}, number = {910-2016-71741}, series = {ISS}, pages = {5}, year = {2004}, abstract = {What is referred to in France as reasoned agriculture appeared in the 1990s as a professional response from intensive-agriculture farmers to the awareness of farming pollutions. Since 2002 it has been the object of a self qualification procedure covering farms and products. A legal analysis shows that the mechanism corresponds to the setting up of an incentive policy in a field already covered by regulations defining legal obligations. Public authorities, combining restrictions and incentives, institute a hybrid policy the legal validity of which may possibly be questioned.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/162491}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.162491}, }