Creation trajectory of farmers' collectives developing territorialized supply chains[Trajectoires de création des collectifs d'agriculteurs porteurs de filières territorialisées]

The mobilization and coordination of a diversity of actors is regularly presented as necessary and essential for the implementation of the agroecological transition. This paper proposes to analyse the relational determinants of such actor mobilization through an analysis of the relational and territorial embeddedness of the creation trajectory of farmer collectives developing territorialized supply chains in organic agriculture. To this end, the quantified narratives method, which enables the identification of situations of access to resources through the analysis of trajectory narratives, was applied within the context of semi-structured interviews conducted with resource persons for our five respective case studies. Our results show that, during the different phases of their creation trajectory, farmer collectives developing territorialized supply chains mobilize a wide range of cognitive, material, financial, human, commercial, organizational, and external communication resources, mostly accessed through interpersonal relationships with various territorial actors. This relational and territorial embeddedness contributes to the implementation of specific coexistence strategies, i.e., the search for a specific product offering, in complementarity with other producers with similar initiatives, or with the support of agricultural and industrial cooperatives. These coexistence strategies, based on interdependencies between actors and organizations in a territorialized food system, contribute to productive and territorial diversification.