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Year 2010
Focus on issues
01/03/2010
“Rethinking public policy in agriculture: lessons from distant and recent history”
Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, Report published in the Journal of Peasant Studies
Editorial
22/02/2010
The urgent necessity for agricultural policies
Pierre Pagesse, President of momagri, Editorial published in the magazine Paysans
Focus on issues
22/02/2010
Agriculture as provider of public goods in the European Union
Agriculture as provider of public goods in the European Union
Personal accounts
15/02/2010
The first economic model on agricultural volatility
Interview de Bertrand Munier, chief economist of momagri, & Peter Timmer, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Harvard, USA
A look at the news
15/02/2010
India's food safety threatened
Editorial
15/02/2010
French intellectuals, a renewed interest in agriculture?
Les Echos Conference "Which agricultural policies for global equilibrium?" Organized by PASSION CEREALS, 16th February at the CESE, by Dominique Lasserre, momagri advisor
Editorial
15/02/2010
The world must prepare for other crises
by Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
A look at the news
08/02/2010
Extreme poverty; a primary global concern
A look at the news
08/02/2010
Threats to global food security
Focus on issues
08/02/2010
Paris declaration for a Common Agricultural and Food Policy
Ministère de l’Agriculture, France
Point of view
21/01/2010
momagri Awarded the 2010 Choiseul Prize
by momagri’s Editorial Board
Press releases
21/01/2010
momagri Awarded the 2010 Choiseul Prize
A look at the news
18/01/2010
For Haiti, earthquake and agricultural disaster
Editorial
18/01/2010
Our work is guided by the need for a better understanding of the specific nature of agricultural markets
By Pierre Pagesse, Chairman of LImagrain and momagri & Jacques Carles, Chairman of the consulting cabinet Carles & Associés and Executive Vice President of momagri
Personal accounts
11/01/2010
‘Speculation greatly increases volatility’
Interview with Bertrand Munier, momagri Chief Economist
A look at the news
11/01/2010
Climate risk, a constant for agriculture
Editorial
11/01/2010
It is imperative that we break from fruitless ideological oppositions
By Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Point of view
04/01/2010
Which type of European agriculture for the 21st century?
by momagri’s Editorial Board
A look at the news
04/01/2010
Still waters run deep
Year 2009
Personal accounts
14/12/2009
“Futures markets are not pretending to replace European Union subsidies”
Interview with Jean-Loïc Bégué Turon, Head of Derivatives Markets, InVivo Group
A look at the news
14/12/2009
“Annus horribilis” in French rural areas
Point of view
07/12/2009
Renewed speculation in agricultural futures markets
Paul-Florent Montfort and Bastien Gibert, Expert and Business Analyst of momagri
momagri model
07/12/2009
First science research paper on the momagri model
Bastien Gibert, Expert, momagri
Focus on issues
07/12/2009
The example of the dairy industry: Between the drawbacks of liberalization and the benefits of regulation
by Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
A look at the news
30/11/2009
Spanish farmers protest at falling income
A look at the news
30/11/2009
Social economy at agriculture’s bedside
Personal accounts
23/11/2009
“Tomorrow, Hunger!”
A book by Frédéric Lemaître, Editor-in-Chief, Le Monde
A look at the news
23/11/2009
Milk: the illusion of the end of the crisis?
Point of view
20/11/2009
The World Summit on Food Security in Rome: Grounds for hope and causes of disappointment
Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President, momagri
A look at the news
16/11/2009
Hunger is not a fatality
Editorial
16/11/2009
20 years on… The challenges of new capitalism
By Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
A look at the news
09/11/2009
Agriculture on Facebook.
Focus on issues
09/11/2009
Is Africa a Future Agricultural Giant? A New Role for the Private Sector in African agriculture
By Patrick Sevaistre, Associate Research Fellow at the Thomas More Institute
Editorial
02/11/2009
Agricultural policies: the history of a changing trend
By Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
A look at the news
26/10/2009
Australian farmers threatened by Chinese imports
Focus on issues
26/10/2009
Index insurance, an innovative tool for poor farmers
International Research Institute on Climate and Society (IRI)
Point of view
19/10/2009
Key Remarks on the FAO High-Level Expert Forum “How to Feed the World in 2050”
Dominique Lasserre, Advisor, momagri
A look at the news
19/10/2009
Reinventing regulation tools.
A look at the news
19/10/2009
Feeding the world: merely a problem of quantity?
Editorial
12/10/2009
« Dairy’s financial problems outstrip usual ups and downs »
By Daryll E. Ray, director of APAC
Focus on issues
12/10/2009
« The false promises of agricultural trade liberalization »
By Mamerto Pérez, Sergio Schlesinger and Timothy A. Wise (Tufts University) Washington Office on Latin America
Point of view
28/09/2009
The next bubble...: Agriculture and food security on the altar of unregulated liberalization
Jacques Carles, délégué général de momagri
Focus on issues
28/09/2009
Agriculture at the heart of Africa's future
By Hervé Gaymard Member of Parliament & Head of the Savoie General Council, ex-Agricultural Minister
A look at the news
22/09/2009
A compass for the WTO
Editorial
22/09/2009
With milk spilling over on all sides, notes on a predictable crisis
by Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Focus on issues
22/09/2009
A better measurement of performance to fine-tune economic policies
by Professors Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
Point of view
14/09/2009
Are the foundations of the Doha Round well grounded?
Bastien Gibert, Expert, and Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Focus on issues
14/09/2009
Regulating large-scale agricultural land acquisitions and leases
By Olivier de Schutter U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food
A look at the news
07/09/2009
The Need to Unify Views on Agriculture
A look at the news
07/09/2009
An Action-packed Fall
Editorial
07/09/2009
“The current crisis obliges us to re-plan our journey and to set ourselves new rules”
Caritas in veritate, Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI
Focus on issues
07/09/2009
The U.S. Senate denounces excessive speculation on agricultural futures markets
Report from the U.S. Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations
Point of view
20/07/2009
Does the European Union Still Have the Means to Realize its Ambitions?
Catherine Guy-Quint, Former Member of the European Parliament (1999-2009)
A look at the news
20/07/2009
Agricultural Policy: New Minister, Same Course
Focus on issues
20/07/2009
Policy shifts can be penny wise but dollar foolish
Daryll E. Ray, directeur de l’APAC
Personal accounts
13/07/2009
The Burkina Faso Fonds de Lissage: “Since the 2006-2007 Harvest, the System Is Working”
an interview with André Pouillès-Duplaix, Deputy Director of the Operational Technical Division of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) , José Tissier and Anne Legile, project managers, « agricultural and rural development » (AFD)
A look at the news
13/07/2009
A 20% drop in farmers’ incomes in 2008
Editorial
29/06/2009
« Sustainable development to cope with the climate, energy and food crises »
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
Focus on issues
29/06/2009
« Making markets work for the hungry poor »
Extract from the World Food Program’s (WFP) Report, “Hunger and Markets”
A look at the news
22/06/2009
1.02 billion starving people in the world
A look at the news
15/06/2009
“A child dies of hunger every 6 seconds”
Focus on issues
15/06/2009
Agricultural support policies are the rule, not the exception
Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Point of view
08/06/2009
We need a revolution in our understanding of how agricultural markets operate
Bastien Gibert & Paul-Florent Montfort, conseillers de momagri
Personal accounts
08/06/2009
Uncertainty And Price Volatility Of Agricultural Commodities - Why this workshop?
Bertrand Munier, IAE de Paris-Sorbonne’s Graduate Business School, Arts & Métiers ParisTech, and ESTP
A look at the news
08/06/2009
Milk: a hasty and inadequate agreement
A look at the news
25/05/2009
Land Purchases Grab Experts’ Attention
Editorial
25/05/2009
World Bank not Ready to Place Agriculture at the Center of Development Policies
Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Focus on issues
25/05/2009
« No time to get greedy »
Daryll E. Ray, APAC
Personal accounts
18/05/2009
“Free agricultural trade will never guarantee the quantity, quality and security of what we eat”
Interview with Marcel Groleau, President of the Quebec Federation of Dairy Producers
Focus on issues
18/05/2009
Canada’s Business Risk Management (BRM) Program for Agriculture
Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Point of view
11/05/2009
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Advocates Monitoring Speculation in Agricultural Futures Exchanges
Paul-Florent Montfort, chargé d’études de momagri
A look at the news
11/05/2009
A billion starving people in the world
A look at the news
11/05/2009
Milk: the situation goes sour
A look at the news
04/05/2009
Agribusiness, a Weapon Against the Crisis?
Focus on issues
04/05/2009
Will the swine flu cause a u-turn at the European Commission?
Paul-Florent Montfort, chargé d’études de momagri
A look at the news
27/04/2009
The Dairy Crisis Reaches Spain
Editorial
27/04/2009
« Fighting food scarcity and environmental degradation in times of economic crisis »
By Franz Fischler, former European Commissioner for Agriculture
Focus on issues
27/04/2009
Ghana Between Food Insecurity and the Financial Crisis
By Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Point of view
20/04/2009
For Paul Krugman, “We Are Wrong to Overlook the Food Crisis”
Address delivered by Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, in Brussels on March 17, 2009
Focus on issues
20/04/2009
« Thailand and Vietnam offer a pattern for international agricultural policy? »
Daryll E. Ray, Director, APAC
Editorial
13/04/2009
“The CAP in the face of the economic and financial crisis”
Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Focus on issues
13/04/2009
“Fighting Price Volatility for Consumers, Processors and Producers”
Report of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE)
A look at the news
06/04/2009
An Additional €1B for European Agriculture
Focus on issues
06/04/2009
Food Security: A Timely Political Issue
by Paul-Florent Montfort, Analyst, momagri
Point of view
30/03/2009
Food Security: An Absolute Priority for the G-20 Summit
Press release Paris, March 30, 2009
A look at the news
30/03/2009
Doha goes on and on
A look at the news
30/03/2009
Milk: a long way towards regulation…
Focus on issues
30/03/2009
Far from Preventing it, a WTO Agreement on Agriculture Could Drive the World Straight to Protectionism!
By Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President of momagri
Editorial
23/03/2009
Regulation : factor of growth of the world’s economy
Paul-Florent Montfort, chargé d’études de momagri
Point of view
16/03/2009
A Global Organization for the 21st Century
By Bertrand Munier, Chief Economist, momagri
A look at the news
16/03/2009
G20 torn between revival and regulation
Focus on issues
16/03/2009
Can we manage this crisis differently? Bailing out the poor, not just the banks
By Minouche Shafik, Permanent Secretary of the British Department for International Development (DFID)
Editorial
09/03/2009
“Doha round will not prevent another food crisis”
A report by Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food On his mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Focus on issues
09/03/2009
Reducing Uncertainty Is Top Priority for IMF Chief Economist
by momagri Editorial Board
A look at the news
06/03/2009
Milk still hasn’t come out of it’s dead end
Point of view
02/03/2009
Coop Fédérée and momagri Take a Stand on the WTO’s Doha Round Current Negotiations
Coop Fédérée Press Release, Quebec
A look at the news
02/03/2009
Agriculture: A « trendy » sector?
Focus on issues
02/03/2009
Doha Round’s Return into Favor Calls for Caution
by momagri Editorial Board
Personal accounts
23/02/2009
The Illusionary Perception of Term Markets: Now is the Time to Reintroduce Pragmatism in a World Noted for its Blind Devotion to Liberalism
An interview of Christian Pèes, Founder and Vice President of momagri, Chairman of the Board of Groupe Euralis
A look at the news
23/02/2009
Recycling Food Waste to Fight World Hunger
Editorial
23/02/2009
On agricultural markets, a sole certainty in 2009: price volatility
Momagri’s Editorial Department
A look at the news
16/02/2009
Doha, a bombshell or a real political will
NAR Agency
16/02/2009
Which Propositions to Reform Rating Agencies?
French National Assembly Information Report No. 1291 presented by Daniel Garrigue, Member from Dordogne 2nd District
Point of view
09/02/2009
McGuinness Report: An encouraging step forward, requiring further support
Momagri’s Editorial Department
Focus on issues
09/02/2009
Worst Financial Crisis in Decades and the Usual Remedies Are Unavailable
Daryll E. Ray, APAC
Personal accounts
02/02/2009
Food crisis, energy crisis, development crisis: Reconnect with Forgotten Crops!
Interview with General V. Lanata, former Chief of Staff of the French Air Force
A look at the news
02/02/2009
Madrid Summit : little progress
Focus on issues
02/02/2009
Maurice Allais: An Economic Visionary
momagri Editorial Board
A look at the news
26/01/2009
Germany Wants an “Agricultural Davos”
Focus on issues
26/01/2009
With no Doha Conclusion in Sight, WTO Considers how to Proceed
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
Personal accounts
19/01/2009
2009: The Year of Truth for the Dairy Industry
Interview of Jehan Moreau, Executive Director, ATLA
momagri model
12/01/2009
Enhancing the momagri Model
Bastien Gibert, conseiller de momagri
Editorial
12/01/2009
Agriculture should be an international priority in 2009
Jacques Diouf, FAO’s General Manager & Jean Michel Severino, AFD’s General Manager
Point of view
05/01/2009
Building agricultural and food policy from the ground up, starting with key concepts
Daryll E. Ray, Director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Centre (APAC)
NAR Agency
05/01/2009
Why is it Imperative to Set Up a Ratings Agency for Agriculture?
by momagri’s Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President and Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
Year 2008
A look at the news
15/12/2008
Farmers’ Income Once Again Hostage to Markets
Focus on issues
15/12/2008
End of the Deadlock for the Dairy Industry ?
by momagri’s editorial board
A look at the news
08/12/2008
Towards an « African CAP » ?
A look at the news
08/12/2008
Soon a billion under-fed in the world
Focus on issues
08/12/2008
For the World Bank, No Risk of World Food Shortage
by momagri’s editorial board
Personal accounts
01/12/2008
International food demand must urgently become solvable
Interview of Frédéric Descrozaille, General Manager of Interfel
Focus on issues
01/12/2008
For a new international cooperation
by Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President of momagri
A look at the news
24/11/2008
More and More “Made in China” Foodstuff
Focus on issues
24/11/2008
The Dairy Industry Crisis: A Case Study
Momagri’s Editorial board
Personal accounts
17/11/2008
The new situation on markets requests a new vision in order to measure the risks: this is the role of the momagri model
Interview of Pr. Bertrand R. Munier, Chief Economist of momagri
A look at the news
17/11/2008
When can we expect a G20 summit on agriculture?
A look at the news
17/11/2008
Boosting food crops in Africa
Focus on issues
17/11/2008
Financial Stability and Agricultural Markets Stability as Global Public Goods?
by momagri’s Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President, and Bastien Gibert, Economic Advisor
Personal accounts
03/11/2008
The financial crisis isn’t over yet
Interview of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, General Manager of the IMF
A look at the news
03/11/2008
Ethanol production isn’t profitable anymore.
Focus on issues
03/11/2008
The necessary development of a crop insurance
A report by Daniel Soulage, Senator of the Lot et Garonne department
Editorial
27/10/2008
For a long term strategic vision of the CAP
COPA-COGECA
Focus on issues
27/10/2008
Is extremism in the name of free markets a virtue or a vice?
Daryll E. Ray, Director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC)
Point of view
20/10/2008
A Few Remarks to Break the European Union Deadlock on the Future of the CAP
Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
A look at the news
20/10/2008
How about a Paulson plan for agriculture?
Focus on issues
20/10/2008
Africa, the symbol of the failure of liberal policies
The Momagri editorial team
Personal accounts
13/10/2008
Breaking from the « Naive Liberal Vision”
An Interview with Emmanuel Coste, Chairman of the Grillon Cooperative Group and Founding Member of momagri
A look at the news
13/10/2008
Confrontations on Milk Price
A look at the news
13/10/2008
Pascal Lamy Stays the Course
Point of view
29/09/2008
Should We Revel in Doha’s Failure?
Jacques Carles, momagri’s Executive Vice President & Bastien Gibert, momagri’s Economic Adviser
A look at the news
29/09/2008
Chinese Milk in Turmoil
Focus on issues
29/09/2008
International Financial Institutions and the Food Crisis
Momagri’s Editorial Board
Editorial
22/09/2008
What Can we Learn from the Recent Drop in Agricultural Prices?
Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
Focus on issues
22/09/2008
What Governance for International Agricultural Markets?
Daryll E. Ray, director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC)
A look at the news
15/09/2008
Biofuel Reshapes Latin America’s Agriculture
Focus on issues
15/09/2008
Promoting Agricultural Exception
Momagri’s Editorial Board
Point of view
08/09/2008
One Cheer for Global Trade Talks
Sandra Polaski, Director Trade, Equity and Development Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington, DC
Editorial
28/07/2008
Daring in Order to Act
Dominique Lasserre, Expert of momagri
Focus on issues
07/07/2008
Rome Meetings: Momagri Brings New Strategic Vision for Global Agriculture
Dominique Lasserre, Expert of momagri
Point of view
02/07/2008
Ten propositions by Momagri for a new Vision for Agriculture
Press releases
Point of view
23/06/2008
Market Forces Alone are Incapable of Ensuring Food Security for Consumers
Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
Focus on issues
23/06/2008
Doha Round: WTO Causes More Disputes than it Settles.
Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
Editorial
09/06/2008
Rome Summit: Despite Good Analysis of the Situation, Inadequate Proposals and Recommendations
Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President of momagri & Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
Focus on issues
09/06/2008
Passage of Farm Bill Illustrates WTO's Inability to Address All Agricultural Issues
momagri Editorial Department
Personal accounts
01/06/2008
It is Time to Create an International Agricultural Policy
Interview with Michel Fosseprez, Chairman of InVivo, Founder and Vice-Chairman of momagri
A look at the news
01/06/2008
The German « Milk Strike » Continues
Point of view
26/05/2008
Revision of the cap – Towards a new common agricultural project
Nadège Chambon, Research Fellow, Notre Europe
Editorial
19/05/2008
Responding to the Consequences of Climate Change by Establishing a Global Agricultural Governance
Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President of momagri
A look at the news
05/05/2008
Japan Strengthens Food Security Policy
Point of view
28/04/2008
Robert Zoellick’s Call for a “New Deal for Global Food Policy” on the International Level Underscores the Urgent Need to Instate World Agricultural Governance
Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President of momagri and Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
A look at the news
28/04/2008
All Eyes on Agriculture
Focus on issues
28/04/2008
What Agricultural Policy for Europe
French Academy of Agriculture
Point of view
14/04/2008
The Results of the momagri Model, An Essential Tool for the Future of World Agriculture
Press Conference, European Parliament, Brussels, 9 April 2008
momagri model
14/04/2008
Facts and Figures
The momagri Model
momagri model
14/04/2008
An X-Ray of the Risk Module within the momagri Model
Pr. Bertrand R. Munier, Chief economist, momagri<
Editorial
14/04/2008
momagri introduces a New Vision for Agriculture
Press release
Personal accounts
07/04/2008
Putting the Dialogue Puzzle Back Together
Virginie Allaire-Arrivée, Former Advisor to the Chairman of the French permanent assembly of chambers of agriculture (APCA) and Director of Coop de France Ouest
A look at the news
07/04/2008
Banana Wars Reveal Gap in EPA Strategy
Focus on issues
07/04/2008
Preventing Food Crises
momagri Editorial Department
Point of view
31/03/2008
2008: The Year When Tensions Abate on the Wheat Market?
Bastien Gibert, Expert of momagri
A look at the news
31/03/2008
Rice: A Turbulent Market
A look at the news
31/03/2008
Dairy Sector Faces Fluctuating Global Prices
Focus on issues
31/03/2008
Hope for the best but plan for the worst
Daryll E. Ray, Director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center
A look at the news
24/03/2008
Debt Relief for Indian Farmers: Not Enough
A look at the news
17/03/2008
Controversy over Rising Food Prices in France
Editorial
17/03/2008
momagri's Strategic Proposals for the Goepel Report on the CAP 'Health Check'
Jacques Carles, Executive Vice President of momagri
Point of view
10/03/2008
“Climate Change not just an Environmental Issue”
Alexandre Taithe, Researcher for the Foundation for Strategic Research
Focus on issues
10/03/2008
Rising Prices in Africa - Thinking Beyond the Short Term
momagri Editorial Department
Point of view
25/02/2008
Liberalization without Regulation? Like a Democracy without Laws!
momagri Editorial Department
A look at the news
25/02/2008
Cotton: United States Sticks to its Guns
Editorial
25/02/2008
Agricultural Price Volatility - the "Kangaroo" Effect
momagri Editorial Department
A look at the news