This paper analyses how possibilities of input reduction in arable crops, despite scientific evidence, are limited by lock-in effects within the agri-food system, and more specifically by industrial and marketing criteria. We will first demonstrate, on the basis of a path-dependency analysis, how this agri-food system has embraced on the long...
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2010 (v1)Journal articleUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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October 12, 2008 (v1)Conference paper
This paper is based on the work done in the French research project Gedupic (Gestion écologique de la santé des plantes) which brings together agricultural and social scientists around the issues of transition towards integrated production. Three case studies on wheat, weeds in arable crops and orchards make possible the study of transitions in...
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2011 (v1)Book section
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