"Terre en jeu" : a role-play to understand the social pressure in farmland access | "Terre en jeu" : un jeu de rôle pour comprendre la pression sociale pour l’accès aux terres agricoles

Following an ANR project (JASMINN : Protection of peri-urban agricultural land in the Mediterranean: justice issues and land innovations) a role-play about access to land in areas under urban or touristic pressure has been created. He brings into play four farmers (one vegetable producer, one wine grower, one breeder and one cereal producer), four landowners, one Mayor of the municipality and one real estate developer. The game taking place in a fictive municipality who have not vote his urban plan. However, we do not know which parcels will become constructible in the end of the game. Each player must complete individual goals in four rounds of play of 7 minutes each. In general, farmers need to grow their surface and landowners need to develop their capital (financial or land). In the end of the game, the Mayor designates the building parcels. After that, he need to be reelected to fulfill his goals. To realize their goals, players must negotiate between them the sale or lease of parcels. The game propose three tenancy-contract: the long one who stabilize farmland use for the rest of the game, the short one i.e. a one-year contract, and the simple arrangement like lend or sublease. In the debriefing, players and the facilitator discuss of players strategies then they take a step back to understand the local social pressure to access to farmland when there is land pressure (retention, speculation…). The discussion is often about the necessity of building a collective vision of the future of a territory (what agriculture, what landscape, what level of building area etc.). This role-play has been tested in two configurations: initial formation in engineers' school in agronomy and territorial development in local authorities. In addition to the presentation of the game, this communication will return to experimentations of game made in initial formation and in local authorities. We will expose different impacts of "Terre en jeu" on territorial and landsca pe developments.