Farm machinery cooperatives: a new arena for agroecological innovation?
2016
Lucas, Véronique | Gasselin, Pierre | Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation (UMR Innovation) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro) | Fédération Nationale des Coopératives d'Utilisation de Matériel Agricole (FNCUMA) | Projets CapVert (2014-2016) et Luz'Co (2016-2019)
In France, new agroecological policies demonstrate a movement of collective innovation experienced by farmers within machinery cooperatives. The present paper aims at understanding how French farmers recompose machinery- and labour-sharing arrangements by developing agroecological practices. Our methodology is based on six case studies, by combining a farming system and a sociological approach. Farmers implement new practices that reconfigure more diversified farming systems with fewer inputs. The collective organisation provided by the machinery cooperative and its associated labour-sharing arrangements shape a niche of innovation conducive to agroecology.These results provide a better identification of the current lock-ins that limit agroecological transition at the farm level.
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