Agriculture and trade, Fabien Roussel
Floor prices, farm income: Floor prices covering production costs, regulated margins
Direction of change: creation of a scheme, compared with current law.
The lever. Farmers' income: guaranteed minimum prices, regulation of margins, or other support tools. Direction rule: ↑ farm income better guaranteed (floor prices, contracts).
« La véritable urgence est le revenu. Le PCF propose des prix planchers couvrant les coûts de production, l’encadrement des marges, le rétablissement du coefficient multiplicateur et des outils publics de stockage. »1Translation by the editorsThe real emergency is income. The PCF proposes floor prices covering production costs, regulation of margins, the reinstatement of the multiplier coefficient and public storage tools.
PCF, « Agriculture : une loi qui ne répond ni à l'urgence du revenu ni à celle de la souveraineté alimentaire » (déclaration), 22 July 2026. Position taken from a document of the candidate’s party or movement, not from a presidential programme.
No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.
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lever that cannot be costed
Lever with no coefficient in the cost schedule: the position is compared, not costed.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. The EGalim acts (2018, 2021 and 2023) provide for price-setting « en marche avant » [“moving forward”, i.e. starting from the producer], production cost indicators and the non-negotiability of agricultural raw materials in certain contracts. There is no general statutory floor price. These texts are not cited in the source (Légifrance, vie-publique and the DGCCRF were not accessible); references: act no. 2018-938 and act no. 2021-1357.
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. A floor price is a pricing rule between private actors. It has no direct budgetary cost, but an effect on food prices that no official source quantifies. If a proposal runs through public aid (income support, State-funded price guarantee), it is costed separately, at the announced amount.
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- PCF, « Agriculture : une loi qui ne répond ni à l'urgence du revenu ni à celle de la souveraineté alimentaire » (déclaration), 22 July 2026. Position taken from a document of the candidate’s party or movement, not from a presidential programme. Read the source (PCF, « Agriculture : une loi qui ne répond ni à l'urgence du revenu ni à celle de la souveraineté alimentaire » (déclaration)).
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