Repenser l’analyse de la participation dans les dispositifs publics de développement territorial. Illustration tirée de l’élaboration d’un Projet Alimentaire Territorial

The participation of stakeholders in public mechanism of territorial development is an important issue. In order to shed some light on this, the present article proposes a temporal and multi-criteria analysis of the participation in the process of elaboration of the Territorial Food Project of Grand Clermont and the Livradois Forez Regional Natural Park, taken as an instrument of territorial public action in the field of agriculture and food. The results underline the importance of the framework set up by the project owners, the evolution of the modalities of participation over time, as well as the diversity of the participating stakeholders and the dynamics of this diversity. These results highlight the contributions of the temporal and multi-criteria analysis of participation, both in terms of the territorial development at work and the links to the notion of social innovation.