IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/ersfer/350967.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Pôles internationaux, tensions alimentaires et stratégies d'adaptation

Author

Listed:
  • Le Bihan, Joseph

Abstract

A description of the role and function of merchants requires an objective analysis of the nature of the relationship between the various economic agents - producers and consumers on the one hand, merchants on the other. - The difficulties met by the buyers concern the cost and certainty of supplies. They may lead to serious risks in addition to the traditional risks run by industrialists in production or sales. The latter will therefore seek to reduce these risks by attempts at internal organization, and by trying to pass on to other economic agents the risks they cannot avoid. What do such risks involve for the merchant ? To support the logistic risk the seller must have a certain infrastructure at his disposal, a well-organized distribution network ensuring continuous delivery in spite of hitches of all kinds. The commercial risk can be negotiated by means of the conditional market, an irreplaceable tool. Only firms specializing in the management of such risks and equipped to do so can establish a sort of « bridge » between the various risks and choose when and how to intervene on the market. But these firms must have sufficient size, experience and means of action to intervene on the international markets. The difficulties met in planned economies show the advantages our economic communities gain from these market mechanisms and how well they can adjust. The economic efficiency of the grain market is a model envied by many other more vulnerable branches.

Suggested Citation

  • Le Bihan, Joseph, 1976. "Pôles internationaux, tensions alimentaires et stratégies d'adaptation," Économie rurale, French Society of Rural Economics (SFER Société Française d'Economie Rurale), vol. 115.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:ersfer:350967
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.350967
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/350967/files/ecoru_0013-0559_1976_num_115_1_2439.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.350967?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    International Relations/Trade;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ersfer:350967. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sferrea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.