Land development of the multi-functionality of agriculture in a sample of collective project

Abstract

The analysis of CTE's projects in 22 departments as " action systems " shows a large variety, which is determinated by identity of actors involved in the projects and by structures of coordination they have built. Different conceptions of agriculture multifunctionnality, interpretations of what is a territory, uses of the CTE policy fit with the types we describe. The " institutional " type, carried out by the departmental professional organisations is the most common. This situation is the product of the political weight of these institutions, the consequences of the uncertainty of the policy during the first months of its application, the effect of administrative standardisation due to the necessary adjustment of national and European policies. However, the cases studied show that this return to top-down logic ; at the opposite of the spirit of the law, is not necessarily irremediable.