Transition agroécologique, innovation et effets de verrouillage : le rôle de la structure organisationnelle des filières

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Fares, M’hand Magrini, M. Triboulet, Pierre
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The French agricultural production system has to evolve towards more environmentally friendly practices. Although research is developing new agricultural cropping systems, getting them adopted by the agricultural profession remains difficult. This technological lock-in effect can be explained by a set of self-reinforcement mechanisms, which strengthen a productive choice established initially in favor of an agriculture based on intensive use of inputs, at the expense of other alternatives. This work aims at analyzing the organizational structure of the durum wheat supply chain to assess the characteristics that are likely to speed-up or restrain the adoption of new production systems. Our results show that the low degree of integration of the supply chain can be viewed as a lock-in mechanism. Therefore, the organizational structure of the supply chain itself can play the role of a self-reinforcement mechanism that reduces the incentives to adopt new practices. The literature on sociotechnical transitions shows that a solution to unlock the system is to create small and highly integrated supply chains (niches), besides the traditional agro-industrial supply chains. The question is then how the value generated by these niche supply chains has to be shared in order to give enough incentives to producers to choose new (and more costly) practices.
Starting Page	34
Ending Page	45
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1684/agr.2012.0539
Volume Number	21
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://revues.cirad.fr/index.php/cahiers-agricultures/article/download/30959/30719
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article