Coopératives laitières : facteurs de maintien de l’élevage laitier en montagne ?

Alavoine-Mornas, Françoise; Madélrieux, Sophie

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“…The Laiterie des Ardennes has the scale of many regional dairy cooperatives present in countries like France (Filippi et al, 2008;Alavoine-Mornas and Madelrieux, 2015). These smaller-scale cooperative models often combines economic and social utility (Koulytchizky and Mauget, 2003) by linking the cooperative project with objectives of rural development and maintenance of a dairy activity in remote territories non-adapted to intensive farming (Alavoine-Mornas and Madelrieux, 2015).…”

Section: New Cooperative Models Act As Structural Answers To Lock-insmentioning

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Coexistence of Cooperative Models as Structural Answer to Lock-Ins in Diversification Pathways: The Case of the Walloon Dairy Sector

Herde

Baret

Maréchal

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Drawing on an analysis of the Walloon dairy sector, this paper aims at bringing novel insights on the coexistence issue in agrifood transition studies. Whereas most studies explore the coexistence of farm models, our study focuses on value chains, in particular on cooperatives. In the Walloon Region, new dairy cooperatives emerged, as substitute or as complement to the incumbent vertically integrated dairy cooperatives. This paper focuses on the coexistence of dairy cooperative models as enabler of transition toward product diversification. Dairy cooperatives are hybrid actors: economic agents on the market on the one hand, structure of collective agency on the other hand. Williamson's framework of New Institutional Economics acknowledges that the allocation of resources by cooperatives depends on governance processes and on the wider institutional context in which the cooperatives evolve. Within the broader frame of the Multi-Level Perspective, this approach allows to consider the socio-technical coherence in which the cooperatives evolve, the effects of this coherence on their pathways of development, and the complementarity of the cooperative models. This qualitative analysis builds on semi-directed interviews with actors of the Walloon dairy sector. The results outline distinctions between the new cooperative models and mainstream dairy cooperatives in market approach, definition of milk quality, distribution of added value, governance, and interactions with partners. Both models evolve within a distinct socio-technical coherence, holding, in the case of the mainstream dairy cooperatives, lock-ins to diversification related to the relationship with the farmer-members and the milk they produce in the industrial vertically integrated model. The new cooperative models circumvent these lock-ins through de-integration and externalization of initiatives, remuneration, and risk. They allow specific groups of actors—still related or unrelated to the mainstream dairy cooperative—to explore new market pathways in accordance with their potential, and to mutually agree on criteria qualifying milk. This research draws the picture of a possible reconfiguration of the dairy landscape toward a more diversified ecosystem of actors and invites to consider structures of governance in collective action as a cornerstone issue, because of their significant role in terms of enablement, coexistence, and complementarity throughout the transition process.

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Section: New Cooperative Models Act As Structural Answers To Lock-insmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coexistence of Cooperative Models as Structural Answer to Lock-Ins in Diversification Pathways: The Case of the Walloon Dairy Sector

Herde

Baret

Maréchal

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…The decline in dairy cattle farming has been a differentiating factor in the mountains in terms of agricultural activity. A first cleavage appeared between the Vercors plateau and the other mountain ranges: in the former, dairy production remained an important marker of local farming, although the number of farms, but also the volumes produced, had declined (Alavoine-Mornas and Madelrieux, 2015). The consolidation of the Vercors Lait cooperative, which collects six million litres in a dozen municipalities, has probably played an important role in maintaining this activity.…”

Section: A Gradual Break In Supply Flows Between the City And The Mou...mentioning

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Livestock Farming in Relations between Urban Districts and the Mountains – The Case Of Grenoble

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Delfosse³

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The limits of coexistence: the development of “frugal” systems in agro-pastoral regions

Garambois

Aubron

Morsel

et al. 2020

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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Since the 1950s, the development of livestock farming in France has focused on a technical model aimed at constantly increasing the physical productivity of labour, to the detriment of value creation. A comparative study of four small agro-pastoral regions illustrates the consequences of this development model in the geographical context: falling numbers of agricultural jobs and an ebb in the share of grazing in the diet of flocks, resulting in underuse or abandon of the areas deemed most difficult, which has in turn led to closure of landscapes. Alternatives have, however, emerged, some of which seek to create more value through a frugal functional model based conversely on greater use of pastoral resources, promoting more sustainable agriculture. The limited development of these frugal agro-pastoral systems is analysed here, with the aim of identifying areas of competition and the limits of coexistence between agricultural development models.

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Coopératives laitières : facteurs de maintien de l’élevage laitier en montagne ?

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Coexistence of Cooperative Models as Structural Answer to Lock-Ins in Diversification Pathways: The Case of the Walloon Dairy Sector

Coexistence of Cooperative Models as Structural Answer to Lock-Ins in Diversification Pathways: The Case of the Walloon Dairy Sector

Livestock Farming in Relations between Urban Districts and the Mountains – The Case Of Grenoble

The limits of coexistence: the development of “frugal” systems in agro-pastoral regions

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