. Taking into account the diversity of the visions of ecologisation in facilitating processes of agri-food systems transitions.
Résumé
The plurality of visions is poorly taken into account in the support to agroecological transitions. It remains either implicit and tackled through the diversity of the actors invited to the debates/processes and/or it is framed in such a way as to reduce the gaps between visions that could potentially generate conflicts in a collective process.
Our proposal is therefore to discuss new perspectives for the facilitation of/support to transitions, that put the diversity of visions back in the foreground as a shared object in order to make it play in favour of the transition process. It is a matter of making explicit and formalising visions that escape a priori categorisations and of initiating an approach that places the diversity of visions at the heart of the transition as a collective learning process.
We will discuss these new perspectives based on the analysis of our experiences of support in two rural territories with contrasted characteristics (Western Vosges, North-East of France and South Ardèche, South of France) in link with a more generic analysis of visions of ecologisation (Magda et al., 2021).
This involvement in situated collective actions and these more general analyses enabled us to draw up a first draft of a collection of principles to found an approach which would give a key role to the diversity of visions and the actors who carry them out, which is specific to each situation. A collective discussion mobilising other experiences could be engaged to enrich this first proposal.