@article{Letort:253784,
      recid = {253784},
      author = {Letort, Elodie and Dupraz, Pierre and Piet, Laurent},
      title = {The impact of environmental regulations on the farmland  market and farm structures: An agent-based model applied to  the Brittany region of France},
      address = {2017},
      number = {913-2016-72269},
      series = {17-01},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {Nitrate pollution remains a major problem in some parts of  France, especially in the Brittany region, which is  characterized by intensive livestock production systems.  Although farmers must not exceed a regulatory limit of  nitrogen contained in manure per hectare, many farmers in  this region exceed this limit. Therefore, they must treat  the excess of manure that they produce or export it to be  spread in neighbouring farms and/or areas, inducing fierce  competition in the land market. Another adaptation strategy  consists of modifying production practices or the  production system as a whole, i.e., changing the structure  of the farm. In this paper, a spatial agent-based model  (ABM) has been developed to assess policy options in the  regulation of manure management practices. The objective is  to highlight the potential effects of these policies on the  farmland market and the structural changes that they  induce. Our results show that the different policies, which  result in similar environmental benefits, induce different  changes in the land market and in agricultural structures.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/253784},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.253784},
}