Agroecological Transitions, Between Determinist and Open-Ended Visions.

Cover -- Copyright Information -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface Branching pathways in agroecological transformations (Andy Stirling) -- Taking into account the ontological relationship to change in agroecological transitions (Dani�ele Magda, Claire Lamine, Terry Marsden, Marta Rivera-Ferre) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characterizing determinist and open-ended perspectives for transition -- 3. How different conceptualizations of the transition to sustainability encapsulate determinist and/or open-ended perspectives on change processes -- 4. The collective process: An attempt to enlighten agroecological transition mechanisms by clarifying our vision on change -- References -- Intertwining deterministic and open-ended perspectives in the experimentation of agroecological production systems: A challenge for agronomy researchers (Mireille Navarrete, H�el�ene Brives, Maxime Catalogna, Am�elie Lef�evre, Sylvaine Simon) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reconsidering experimentation on farming systems with agroecology -- 3. Methods -- 4. A large diversity in the way deterministic and open-ended perspectives coexist in experimentation -- 4.1. From a deterministic experimentation to a combination of the two perspectives -- 4.2. A planned coexistence between deterministic and open-ended perspectives to tackle uncertainty -- 4.3. A coexistence of open-ended and deterministic perspectives on both the short-term and the long-term time scales -- 4.4. A combination of deterministic and open-ended perspectives relating to a separation of roles between farmers and researchers -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1. Various forms of coexistence according the types of decision and over time -- 5.2. Limits to coexistence -- 5.3. From a dual vision towards intertwining various experiments embedding open-ended and deterministic perspectives.

6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Plant breeding for agroecology: A sociological analysis of the co-creation of varieties and the collectives involved (Sophie Tabouret, Claire Lamine, Fran�cois Hochereau) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three case studies in perennial plant breeding -- 2.1. Languedoc Wine: New actors that change the definition of a "sustainable" resistance4 -- 2.2. Ros�e de Provence: Taking into consideration the practices of concerned actors -- 2.2. Prunus: A multi-actor process to open and discuss the list of relevant criteria -- 3. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Agroecological transitions at the scale of territorial agri-food systems (Marianne Hubeau, Martina Tuscano, Fabienne Barataud, Patrizia Pugliese) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual framework -- 3. Method and case study description -- 3.1. Step-by-step evolution towards a deterministic perspective in Flanders -- 3.2. Provence Verte food project: From open-ended to deterministic perspectives -- 3.3. Mirecourt: A test of a user-centred approach that emphasizes action and values -- 3.4. Spiralling up and out: The ECST experience in Coastal Dunes Regional Nature Park, Italy -- 4. Results and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- How policy instruments may favour an articulation between open ended and deterministic perspectives to support agroecological transitions? Insights from a franco-brazilian comparison (Claire Lamine, Claudia Schmitt, Juliano Palm, Floriane Derbez, Paulo Petersen) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analytical framework -- 3. Two innovative tools which focus on collective, multi-actors and territorial scales and dynamics -- 3.1. The Collective Mobilization for AgroEcology Call (MCAE) -- 3.2. Ecoforte -- 4. From the framing of AET by policy tools to their enactment by situated collectives.

4.1. MCAE: An open definition of agroecology and agroecological transitions that gives way to a diversity of pathways… (and controversies) -- 4.2. Ecoforte: Expanding and contextualizing agroecological visions -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1. Scope, actors and scale as key objects of the open-ended perspective claimed by both programmes -- 5.2. Modes of articulation of deterministic and open-ended perspectives -- 5.3. The role of researchers in the redefinition of "systematization" -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Teaching, training and learning for the agroecological transition: A French-Brazilian perspective (Moacir Darolt, Juliette Anglade, Pascale Moity- Ma�izi, Claire Lamine, Florette Rengard, Vanessa Iceri, Am�elie Genay, Cristian Celis) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case studies -- 2.1. Technical courses in agroecology in state centres of professional education (CEEP): Brazil -- 2.2. The public agricultural teaching programs in France -- 2.3. Latin-American school of agroecology: ELAA (Lapa-Paran�a-Brazil) -- 2.4. Faxinal Emboque, S�ao Mateus do Sul, Paran�a: Brazil - The institute of popular education - Instituto Equipe de Educa�c�ao Popular (IEEP) -- 2.5. Mentorship system (InPACT collective): Ard�eche - France -- 2.6. Reinventing experimental farms as new learning spaces: INRA Mirecourt, Lorraine - France -- 3. Discussion: The modes of articulation between determinist and open-ended perspectives -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The manufacture of futures and the agroecological transition. Deciphering pathways for sustainability transition in France (Marc Barbier, Sarah Lumbroso, Jessica Thomas, S�ebastien Treyer) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analyzing activities of building representations of the future to identify ontological relationships to change.

3. The manufacture of futures around the agroecological transition in France -- 4. Methodology and empirical findings -- 4.1. The portfolio of case studies -- 4.2. Analytical grid -- 4.3. Results: Articulations between relationships to change in the activities of the manufacture of futures -- 5. Interpretation -- 5.1. The main features of the three types of activities of future building -- 5.2. Relationships to change behind the visions of the agroecology and the methodological tools used to build them -- 5.3. Relationships to change behind the expected impacts of the activities and the stakeholders and arenas targeted to reach them -- Conclusion -- References -- How access and dynamics in the use of territorial resources shape agroecological transitions in crop-livestock systems: Learnings and perspectives (Vincent Th�enard, Gilles Martel, Jean- Philippe Choisis, Timoth�ee Petit, S�ebastien Couvreur, Olivia Fontaine, Marc Moraine) -- 1. How territorial resources and local dynamics support agroecological transitions -- 1.1 Resources involved in agroecological transitions -- 1.2 How agroecological LFS combine biodiversity and territory embeddedness -- 2. Looking at agroecological transitions in contrasting French territories -- 2.1 Territories description regarding territorial embeddedness and biodiversity mobilization -- Mediterranean area in Languedoc -- Oceanic area in Brittany -- Semi-continental area in Aveyron -- Tropical area in Reunion Island -- 2.2 Agroecological LFS multi-criteria assessment -- 3. From mobilized resources to LFS agroecological performances -- 3.1 LFS archetypes in case studies -- 3.2 Mobilized resources in the case studies -- 3.3 LFS agroecological performances in contrasted territories -- 4. Learnings and perspectives -- 4.1 What resources analysis tells us about transition dynamics?.

4.2 LFS agroecological transitions perspectives -- References -- The dynamics of agropastoral activities with regard to the agroecological transition (Charles-Henri Moulin, Laura Etienne, Magali Jouven, Jacques Lasseur, Martine Napol�eone, Marie-Odile Nozi�eres-Petit, Eric Vall, Arielle Vidal) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Agropastoralism and agroecology -- 2.1. Agropastoralism may be in line with the principles of agroecology -- 2.2. Agropastoral systems are changing -- 3. A framework to analyze livestock dynamics in agropastoral regions -- 4. In West African cotton areas, a dairy intensification pathway as a transition between two forms of agroecological livestock systems -- 4.1. Emergence of two pathways for dairy intensification -- 4.2. A pathway of dairy intensification consistent with agroecological principles at three levels -- 4.3. Public actors with a determinist perspective of dairy intensification -- 5. In the French Mediterranean, transitions at the farm and territory levels enable maintaining the agroecological logic of agropastoral livestock systems -- 5.1. Pathway of forage intensification: From agropastoral to cultivated grass-based livestock systems -- 5.2. A dynamic of adaptation of agropastoral farms -- 5.3. An agroecological transition at the territory level for agropastoral farms accessing feeds on cultivated lands -- 5.4. New territorial actors enable the emergence of new coordination mechanisms -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- What models of justice for the agroecological transition? The normative backdrops of the transition (Pierre M. Stassart, Antoinette M. Dumont, Corentin Hecquet, Stephanie Klaedtke, Camille Lacombe, Matthieu de Nanteuil) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The agroecological transition as an open-ended and non-relativist process -- 2.1. An open-ended process, oriented towards social transformation.

2.2. Normative supports of the agroecological transition.

This book explores relationships to change in agroecological transitions, based on two contrasting and ideal-typical stances, the determinist perspective and the open-ended perspective.at different scales such as agricultural systems, food systems, policy instruments..., thus reinforcing the potential diversity of transition pathways.

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