Chapitre 3. Le maraîchage et la production de légumes biologiques : ajuster la production et la commercialisation

Bressoud, Frédérique; Navarrete, Mireille; Mazollier, Catherine

doi:10.3917/edagri.lamin.2009.01.0075

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“…Planting the right volume therefore remains a key challenge for farmers in diversified direct selling systems (Bressoud et al . ). A variety of sales channels, with and without commitment, helps in resolving overproduction issues (Ilbery et al .…”

Section: Redesigning Time and Space For Cropping: A Conceptual Headachementioning

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Short Food Supply Chains, Long Working Days: Active Work and the Construction of Professional Satisfaction in French Diversified Organic Market Gardening

Dupré¹,

Lamine

Navarrete

2017

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article analyses professional satisfaction of farm managers of organic diversified market garden farms selling through short food supply chains, in the south of France. Faced with strong economic and agronomic constraints, the cropping arrangements on these farms result in very tense experiences, both spatially and temporally. However, our analysis shows that while diversified organic market gardening is a demanding farm work environment, it paradoxically can create high professional satisfaction as a result of the complex integration of different elements, including social support and decision latitude. Indeed, the diversity of tasks, farmers' autonomy, their role in decision-making, and the challenging dimensions of organic farming contribute to what Karasek and Theorell call 'active work'. Nevertheless, our research concludes that social support appears to be necessary to reach a good level of work satisfaction. Our findings also identify future research opportunities to examine, for example, how diversification impacts the work and the professional satisfaction of hired workers in organic market gardening contexts.

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Section: Redesigning Time and Space For Cropping: A Conceptual Headachementioning

confidence: 97%

Short Food Supply Chains, Long Working Days: Active Work and the Construction of Professional Satisfaction in French Diversified Organic Market Gardening

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Lamine

Navarrete

2017

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Microfarms are complex systems, like all diversified market gardening operations embedded in short local supply chains (Bressoud et al 2009;Bon et al 2010;Aubry et al 2011). As such they require systemic approaches (Morin 2005).…”

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A conceptual framework for alternative farmers’ strategic choices: the case of French organic market gardening microfarms

Morel¹,

Léger

2016

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Alternative farming systems are challenging classical agronomic frameworks because their aim is to promote human and ecosystems welfare rather than profit maximization. The objective of our work was to understand how alternative farmers build their strategic choices. Through a multiple-case qualitative study of 14 organic market gardening microfarms in the northern half of France, we developed a systemic conceptual framework in which strategic decision making is integrated with a wide range of social and environmental aspirations. As these various aspirations can be in tension, it is relevant to consider trade-offs between them to study the viability of alternative farms.

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“…Ces maraîchers fournissent la majeure partie des tomates, concombres et fraises consommées en France (Bressoud et al, 2009). Pour un aperçu de leur répartition géographique, voir l'Etude sur l'utilisation rationnelle de l'énergie dans les serres, produite en mars 2007 par le Centre Technique Interprofessionnel des Fruits et Légumes, consultable sur http://www.fruits-et-legumes.net/ACTUALITES/BilanEnergieSerres.pdf Les stratégies différenciées que ces agriculteurs mettent en oeuvre pour faire face à une telle situation, sont structurées par les contraintes physiques et économiques de la production agricole locale et les spécificités de l'implantation du maraîchage biologique dans le département, ainsi que par les débats qui caractérisent le monde agrobiologique dans son ensemble.…”

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“…Dans la typologie des maraîchers établie par Bressoud et al (2009), on peut situer la grande majorité d'entre eux dans la catégorie des « maraîchers diversifiés, qui organisent des assolements intégrant plus de 10 espèces, majoritairement à destination des circuits courts, même si certains d'entre eux développent à la marge une commercialisation en circuit long ».…”

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Les conditions pratiques d’un engagement économique et moral. Les maraîchers biologiques et la saisonnalité des fruits et légumes

Samak¹

2013

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-Cet article s'intéresse de près aux mécanismes sociaux qui produisent les choix normatifs des maraîchers biologiques, autour de deux aspects spécifiques du travail agricole qui mettent en jeu leur rapport à la saisonnalité des productions : les serres et la commercialisation des produits. Il décrit et cherche à expliquer sociologiquement deux phénomènes distincts : d'une part, la variation des normes productives d'une exploitation à l'autre ; d'autre part l'évolutivité dans le temps de ces normes sur une même exploitation. Ces deux phénomènes conduisent à envisager les modalités et les conditions sociales de l'engagement (et du désengagement) en faveur du « respect de la saisonnalité » des productions végétales. Mots-clés : agriculture biologique, saisonnalité des cultures, fruits et légumes, normes de travail, matériel agricole, marché de détail A moral commitment. Organic market gardeners facing fruit and vegetable seasonality Summary-This article deals with social mechanisms which produce normative choices of organic market gardeners, treating mainly two aspects of farm working which are significant of their relationship to production seasonality: greenhouses and commercialization. It describes and tries to explain two distinct phenomena: the variation of productive norms from one farm to another, and the evolutivity in time of these norms. These two phenomena bring us to a better comprehension of commitment (and disengagement) in favor of production seasonality "respect".

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Chapitre 3. Le maraîchage et la production de légumes biologiques : ajuster la production et la commercialisation

Cited by 5 publications

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Short Food Supply Chains, Long Working Days: Active Work and the Construction of Professional Satisfaction in French Diversified Organic Market Gardening

Short Food Supply Chains, Long Working Days: Active Work and the Construction of Professional Satisfaction in French Diversified Organic Market Gardening

A conceptual framework for alternative farmers’ strategic choices: the case of French organic market gardening microfarms

Les conditions pratiques d’un engagement économique et moral. Les maraîchers biologiques et la saisonnalité des fruits et légumes

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