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Can standards save organic farming from conventionalisation? Dynamics of collective projects and rules in a French organic producers’ organisation

Les standards peuvent-ils sauver l'agriculture de la conventionnalisation ? Dynamiques de projets collectifs et de règles dans une organisations françaises de producteurs biologiques.

Ronan Le Velly
Allison Loconto
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The unintended consequences of standards and certification schemes, particularly their challenges for alternative agri-food networks, is a core concern of rural sociology. The conventionalisation of organic agriculture is a prime example. In this article, we contribute to this debate by studying standards that organic farmers developed for themselves within a French organic producers' organisation. We introduce a 'regulationist theory of collective action' and show that these farmers crafted specific rules that go beyond the EU regulation, which in turn gave life to their own alternative, collective project. We thus demonstrate that standardisation and certification do not inevitably engender conventionalisation.
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hal-03270774 , version 1 (25-06-2021)

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Ivan Dufeu, Ronan Le Velly, Jean-Pierre Bréchet, Allison Loconto. Can standards save organic farming from conventionalisation? Dynamics of collective projects and rules in a French organic producers’ organisation. Sociologia Ruralis, 2020, 60 (3), pp.621 - 638. ⟨10.1111/soru.12298⟩. ⟨hal-03270774⟩
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