Pierre Labarthe

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present seventeen articles dealing with social, economic and institutional dynamics of precision farming, digital agriculture, smart farming or agriculture 4.0, and reveal new insights on the link between digital agriculture and farm diversity, new economic, business and institutional arrangements both on-farm, in the value chain and food system, and in the innovation system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the characteristics of intangible services and demonstrate how the privatization of advisory services may have unexpected adverse effects on small farms, and how less direct interaction with advisors makes it more difficult to co-produce knowledge that is relevant to their needs.

TL;DR: This paper explores the potential of combining two analytical frameworks: an institutional economic approach (IEA) and a sociological network approach (SNA), illustrated by a historical analysis of advisory services in France and The Netherlands from 1945 until now.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically explore the variety of advice providing bodies in Europe regarding organisational features, characteristics of service provision and the targeted client groups, and conclude on impacts of organisational pluralism and especially privatisation of AAS for various client groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how commercialization of farm advice impacts on the quality of services and concluded that commercialised advice has several advantages but favours affluent clients, and that public support is available to improve the knowledge flows between public research and private organisations.