From AEM to CTE: a difficult transition - Analysis of an actual case in the Upper Valley of Allier (France)

Abstract

In order to limit the agricultural decline, in the frame of the agri-environmental measures (AEM), a local operation had been set up in 1995 in the Upper Valley of Allier in Haute Loire (France). Coming from a local initiative its setting had gathered a large number of actors and the quality of its implementation had reached to a high level of contractualisation. This situation, a priori favourable to the emergence of a collective project for the CTE (contrats territoriaux d'exploitation or land use contracts) however has not missed the difficulties of implementation of the procedure. The original mechanisms of these cumbersomeness are analyzed here basing on a comparison between the two approaches.