The territory in the land management contract policy - A comparison of collective projects in the department Hérault

Abstract

The implementation of LMC in the department Herault leads to the question of the importance of the notion of territory in this policy. Through an analysis of collective projects in terms of concrete action systems, LMC can be understood as a stake for syndical organisations and also as a result of local development history. We chose to classify each LMC project by its co-ordination structure, which includes economical and professional organisations, agricultural networks and associations. These structures are linked to different territories that can bear strong or less strong identities. However, this diversity currently seems to have limited impacts in the contracts, due to the definition of technical proposals at the regional level.