Collectifs d’échanges de pratiques pour écologiser l’agriculture : éclairer les difficultés d’une approche volontaire

• Main Authors: Marie-Hélène Vergote, Corinne Tanguy
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Réseau Développement Durable et Territoires Fragiles 2021-05-01
• Series: Développement Durable et Territoires
• Subjects: collectives; knowledge; agroecology; confidence; practices; innovation
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/developpementdurable/18861

Farmers' collectives provide a privileged space to support the adoption of green agronomic practices by building and sharing knowledge. However, a small proportion of farmers are formally involved in such groups. After an analysis of their contributions, with farmers who are members of technical collectives, we wonder about what helps establishing and making work a collective, through the feedback of a technical institute, on a critical project put on hold. Presented by the project promoters as the consequence of a lack of confidence from the farmers, the analysis of this failure is a source of learning. It highlights the difficulties and challenges of forming collectives, which are considered a major ingredient in transition discourse.