Coexistence and Confrontation of Agricultural and Food Models

Preface - A courageous and truly necessary work.- General introduction - Questions, issues and analytical framework.- PART I. SPECIALIZATION/DIVERSIFICATION.- Introduction - Productive and territorial specialization: a blocking factor or a resource.- 1. From agro-industrial specialization to the plurality of models in southern Brazil.- 2. The construction of development itineraries in dairy basins, between specialized and diversified models.- 3. Does the evolution of agricultural production models allow for their coexistence in the territories.- PART II. INNOVATION.- Introduction - Innovation: ferment and fruit of the coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models.- 4. Mass retailing, a driving force for hybridization and innovation in territorial food systems.- 5. Coexisting in Cuma: cooperation between heterogeneous farmers.- 6. Emergence and compartmentalization of advisory subsystems for ecological intensification of agriculture in Burkina Faso.- PART III. ADAPTATION.- Introduction - Adaptation: necessity and project in coexistence.- 7. ProHuerta: from subsistence self-production to the agroecological challenge of giants.- 8. Hybridization of food chains in peri-urban production systems: the example of Pisa, Italy.- 9. Tradition in the market: valuing the know-how and identity of the Faxinal Emboque community in Brazil.- 10. History and coexistence of agricultural development models. The cases of Argentina, France and Brazil.- PART IV. TRANSITION.- Introduction - Thinking about transitions through the coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models: scales, actors and territorial trajectories.- 11. The role of interactions between organic and "conventional" in the ecological transition of the territorial food system of southern Ardèche.- 12. Challenging and caring: forms of solidarity in local purchasing groups.- 13. Governing coexistence in an economy "in transition": peasant farming and mega-farms in the Vietnamese dairy sector.- 14. Thinking about the diversity of transition trajectories.- PART V. A NEW PARADIGM OF TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT?.- Introduction - Ambivalence of models and the challenge of territorial governance of coexistence.- 15. Coexistence as an arrangement: the multiplicity of dairy models in Switzerland.- 16. Neoliberalization of agricultural policy in Japan and contradictions between agricultural models.- 17. Where is the development model of food systems that emerged at the end of the 20th century going.- 18. Agricultural and food models: don't believe in them too much, but believe in them anyway.- 19. Confronting models: coexistence to navigate between the naivety of consensus and the violence of polarization.- 20. Governing the coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models in the territories: paradigm, postures, methods.- List of authors.