Philippe Jeanneaux

About

Philippe Jeanneaux is a professor of rural economics at VetAgro Sup, the French National Institute for Agronomy and Veterinary. He is currently a visiting scholar in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Global Development, Cornell University. His research interests include farm performance, the economic performance of local agri-food systems, and strategic management in the context of sustainable agriculture. Jeanneaux was a visiting Fulbright scholar in the department in 2020–2021 and continues to be a visiting scholar with the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems (a project of the Center for Transformative Action, a nonprofit affiliate of Cornell University).

Research Focus

Dr. Jeanneaux’s scholarship has three key foci. First, his work in economics focuses on analyzing the implementation of local public policies and collective action challenging public choices in the changing context of rural areas. He is particularly interested in the strategy of protected designation of origin (PDO), with an emphasis on understanding how local food supply chain actors who seek to control legal mechanisms use PDOs to their advantage. Second, he has analyzed the economic and environmental performance of farms. This work is completed by the analysis of the evolution of farmers' strategies, particularly in terms of capitalization of farms and " intergenerational “farm transfer. Finally, he has maintained an action-research project called the PERF Program, which provides a strategic management decision-making process for farms, co-ops, and local agri-food chains.

Teaching Focus

Dr. Jeanneaux has developed a teaching program in five main topics for graduate and postgraduate students:

• Agricultural economics and eco-efficiency
• Farm management
• Farms dynamics and farmers’ renewal policies
• European agricultural policy
• Economic performance of local agri-food systems

Recent Research and Online Teaching

Dr. Jeanneaux came to Cornell University during the COVID-19 pandemic under senior extension associate David Kay’s supervision to work on a project with the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems to develop a program called ACRE— AgriCluster Resilience and Expansion. ACRE is a facilitated process for helping groups of farmers engage in strategic planning for collective action (e.g., a cooperative or food hub). The ACRE process includes creating a core leadership group and completing a set of exercises to develop shared history, shared values, shared vision, project identification, and project prefeasibility analysis. The final output of an ACRE project is a strategic plan with SMART objectives and a clear program of activity going forward for the stakeholders. With funding from the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Education program (NESARE), Dr. Jeanneaux and his colleagues Duncan Hilchey with the Lyson Center, Bobbie Severson with Cornell’s Cooperative Enterprise Program, and Kim Hines with the North American Food Systems Network have developed an 18-unit online course to help train ACRE facilitators. These ACRE facilitators can take farm groups and allied stakeholders through the ACRE process to develop the strategic plan. The vision for the ACRE Program includes training students here in the U.S. and abroad, including those planning to work in the Global South as development experts. 

Dr. Jeanneaux also assisted Hilchey on a pilot ACRE project with a group of muck onion growers in New York. In this context, he carried out a larger scholarly economic analysis of the onion industry — not only in New York, but also for industry stakeholders throughout the U.S. and North America. His analysis provides an example of how the emergence of large industrial global supply chains can affect smaller local and regional value chains throughout the world. He recently authored an in-depth report that offers practical recommendations for NY onion growers to develop a new value chain that could be more profitable and resilient in the long run through more trusting and transparent collaboration with handlers and other stakeholders.

Selected Publications

• Dakpo, K. H., Desjeux, Y., Jeanneaux, P., & Latruffe, L. (2018). Productivity, technical efficiency and technological change in French agriculture during 2002-2015: A Färe-Primont index decomposition using group frontiers and meta-frontier. Applied Economics, 51(11), 1166–1182. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1524982
• Dakpo, K. H., Jeanneaux, P., & Latruffe, L. (2016). Modelling pollution-generating technologies in performance benchmarking: Recent developments, limits and future prospects in the nonparametric framework. European Journal of Operational Research, 250(2), 347–359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.07.024
• Dakpo, K. H., Jeanneaux, P., & Latruffe, L. (2017). Greenhouse gas emissions and efficiency in French sheep meat farming: A non-parametric framework of pollution-adjusted technologies. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 44(1), 33–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbw013
• Dakpo, K. H., Jeanneaux, P., & Latruffe, L. (2019). Pollution-adjusted productivity changes: Extending the Färe–Primont index with an illustration with French suckler cow farms. Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 24, 625–639. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-019-09656-y
• Dakpo, K. H., Jeanneaux, P., & Latruffe, L. (2020). Modelling pollution-generating technologies: A numerical comparison of non-parametric approaches. In J. Aparicio, C. A. Knox Lovell, J. T. Pastor, & J. Zhu (Eds.), Advances in efficiency and productivity II (pp. 67–85). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41618-8_5
• Dakpo, K. H., Jeanneaux, P., Latruffe, L., Mosnier, C., & Veysset, P. (2018). Three decades of productivity change in French beef production: A Färe-Primont index decomposition. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 62(3), 352–372. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12264
• Dakpo, K. H., Latruffe, L., Desjeux, Y., & Jeanneaux, P. (2021). Latent class modelling for a robust assessment of productivity:  Application to French grazing livestock farms. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 72(3), 760–781. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12422
• Dakpo, K. H., Latruffe, L., Desjeux, Y., & Jeanneaux, P. (2022). Modeling heterogeneous technologies in the presence of sample selection: The case of dairy farms and the adoption of agri‐environmental schemes in France. Agricultural Economics, 52(3), 422–438. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12683
• Davidova, S., Hostiou, N., Alebaki, M., Bailey, A., Bakucs, Z., Duval, J., Gouta, P., Henderson, S., Jacquot, A.-L., Jeanneaux, P., Jendrzejewski, B., Kilcline, K., Konstantidelli, V., Kostov, P., Latruffe, L., Schaller, L., Van Ruymbeke, K., Védrine, L., Veslot, J., Vranken, L., & Walder, P. (2022). What does ecological farming mean for farm labour? EuroChoices, 21(3), 21–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12366
• Edelmann, H., Quiñones-Ruiz, X. F., Penker, M., Scaramuzzi, S., Broscha, K., Jeanneaux, P., Belletti, G., & Marescotti, A. (2020) Social learning in food quality governance—Evidences from geographical indications amendments. International Journal of the Commons, 14(1), 108–122. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.968
• Jeanneaux, P., Capitaine, M., & Mauclair, A. (2018). PerfCuma: A framework to manage the sustainable development of small cooperatives. International Journal of Agricultural Management, 7(1), 68–79. (16) (PDF) PerfCuma: A framework to manage the sustainable development of small cooperatives (researchgate.net)
• Jeanneaux, P., Desjeux, Y., Enjolras, G., & Latruffe, L. (2022). Farm valuation: A comparison of methods for French farms. Agribusiness, 38(4), 786–809. https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21752
• Jeanneaux, P., & Velay, N. (2021). Capitalisation du revenu agricole et formation du patrimoine professionnel des exploitations agricoles [Capitalization of farm income and constitution of professional asset]. Économie rurale, 378, 97–118. https://doi.org/10.4000/economierurale.9437
• Mann, C., Jeanneaux, P. (2009). Two approaches for understanding land use conflicts to improve rural planning and management. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 4(1), 118–141. jrcd,+JRCD-2008-220.pdf
• Niedermayr, A., Landert, J., Albanito, F., Carolus, J., Desjeux, Y., Heinrichs, J., Hrabalova, A., Jeanneaux, P., Kantelhardt, J., Latruffe, L., Sanders, J., Schaller, L., & Schwarz, G. (2022). Assessing farming systems in transition to agroecology. EuroChoices, 21(3), 48–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12359
• Piet, L., Chatellier, V., Delame, N., Jeanneaux, P., Laroche-Dupraz, C., Ridier, A., & Veysset, P. (2021). Mesurer le revenu des exploitations agricoles françaises: Analyse comparée sur 15 ans d’indicateurs issus du Rica et de la MSA [Measuring the income of French farms: A 15-year comparative analysis of indicators from Rica and MSA]. Économie rurale, 378, 37–56. https://doi.org/10.4000/economierurale.9402
• Torre, A., Melot, R., Magsi, H., Bossuet, L., Cadoret, A., Caron, A., Darly, S., Jeanneaux, P., Kirat, T., Pham, H. V., & Kolokouris, O. (2014). Identifying and measuring land-use and proximity conflicts: Methods and identification. SpringerPlus, 3, Article 85. https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-85
• Vandecandelaere, E., Teyssier, C., Barjolle, D., Fournier, S., Beucherie, O., & Jeanneaux, P. (2020). Strengthening sustainable food systems through geographical indications: Evidence from 9 worldwide case studies. Journal of Sustainability Research, 2(4), https://sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_1279_Detail.html