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The project, which will last 15 months and is financed as part of a ‘Centre d’études et de prospective’ (CEP) research programme, is coordinated by Laurent Piet, research analyst at SMART-LERECO, and pursues three goals. First, it aims at reviewing the various definitions and measures of the many acceptations of the ‘agricultural income’ concept, and at describing as precisely as possible the diversity of French farmers income. Second, it aims at studying the technical and economic drivers of farm income, and more specifically the balance between the short-term remuneration of labor and its differed remuneration through capital accumulation. Third, it aims at analyzing the redistributive effects of some CAP income support measures and whether this kind of support is consistent with the simultaneous achievement of other goals such as talking environmental issues. To do so, the project gather scientists from four research teams, l’UMR SMART-LERECO (Rennes), l’UMR Herbivores (Clermont-Ferrand), l’UMR Economie Publique (Paris-Grignon) et l’UMR Territoires (Clermont-Ferrand).