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Détermination des objectifs économiques des petits producteurs de café au Guatemala [Une application de la programmation multicritère ]

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  • Juan Carlos Méndez
  • Michel Benoit-Cattin

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[fre] Sur la base d'une typologie articulant le niveau d'intensification de la production et la structure des exploitations familiales, cette étude a pour objectif d'identifier les critères de décision technico-économiques propres à chaque type d'exploitation ciblé par la vulgarisation agricole. La méthode utilisée est la modélisation par programmation mathématique des systèmes de production complétée par la technique du Multiple Criteria Decision Making (mcdm) appliquée à des exploitations préalablement typées. L'objectif principal des exploitations ne serait la maximisation de la marge brute que dans le cas des exploitations des "Jeunes". Les "Capitalisés" maximisent la rentabilité, les "Diversifiés" minimisent les charges variables et les "Traditionnels" minimisent la difficulté de gestion. Ces résultats peuvent permettre une meilleure sélection des propositions techniques faites aux exploitants. [eng] Determination of the economic goals of the small coffee producers in Guatemala : an application of the multiple criteria decision making methodology . Based on a farm typology which matches the intensification level and their production structure, this study makes the effort to determine the technico-economic decision criteria of each type of farm targetted by the agricultural extension. The method is the mathematical programming modeling of production systems complemented with the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) technic applied to different types of farms. The main farmer's objective is the profit maximization only for the "Young" farmers. The "Capitalised" ones maximize "profit/variable cost" ratio, the "Diversified" farmers minimize variable cost and the "Traditional" ones minimize the management difficulty. These results can allow a better screening of technical proposals made to different farmers.

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  • Juan Carlos Méndez & Michel Benoit-Cattin, 1997. "Détermination des objectifs économiques des petits producteurs de café au Guatemala [Une application de la programmation multicritère ]," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 239(1), pages 49-57.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recoru:ecoru_0013-0559_1997_num_239_1_4868
    DOI: 10.3406/ecoru.1997.4868
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