TY  - EJOUR
AB  - Some rural development strategies are based on the assumption that quality labels may act as levers for inducing economic growth and population migration to rural areas. To investigate the validity of this assumption, we use a new economic geography model. A specific (“labelled”) agricultural good is assumed to be produced by farmers who co-operate in order to set a monopoly price and control the number of producers. We find that there is a trade-off between the number of differentiated farmers and their individual income. Besides, the positive effect of agricultural differentiation on rural industrialization, due to increased demand for industrial goods, is offset by an opposite effect due to urban wages rise. Higher transport costs for the specific good favour rural industrialization but limit the size of the differentiated agricultural sector.
AU  - Callois, Jean-Marc
DA  - 2006
DA  - 2006
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.201680
DO  - doi
EP  - 51
EP  - 31
ID  - 201680
JF  - Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales (CESR)
KW  - Community/Rural/Urban Development
KW  - rural development
KW  - designation of origin
KW  - new economic geography
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201680/files/78-31-51.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201680/files/78-31-51.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201680/files/78-31-51.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201680/files/78-31-51.pdf
N2  - Some rural development strategies are based on the assumption that quality labels may act as levers for inducing economic growth and population migration to rural areas. To investigate the validity of this assumption, we use a new economic geography model. A specific (“labelled”) agricultural good is assumed to be produced by farmers who co-operate in order to set a monopoly price and control the number of producers. We find that there is a trade-off between the number of differentiated farmers and their individual income. Besides, the positive effect of agricultural differentiation on rural industrialization, due to increased demand for industrial goods, is offset by an opposite effect due to urban wages rise. Higher transport costs for the specific good favour rural industrialization but limit the size of the differentiated agricultural sector.
PY  - 2006
PY  - 2006
SP  - 31
T1  - Quality labels and rural development : a new economic geography approach
TI  - Quality labels and rural development : a new economic geography approach
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201680/files/78-31-51.pdf
VL  - 78
Y1  - 2006
T2  - Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales (CESR)
T2  - 78
ER  -