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<p>Participatory ecological research in agricultural contexts is on the rise. Developing collaboration between farmers and ecology researchers is expected to both foster the acquisition of fundamental knowledge and guide farmers towards the adoption of ecological practices through the co-construction of relevant expertise. Yet the impacts of these participatory approaches on farmers’ practices are still poorly characterized. In this paper, we tackle this issue by considering as a case study a participatory research project in viticulture (EcoVitiSol®) conducted in 2022–2023 in the Côtes-de-Provence AOC vineyards (France). EcoVitiSol® (EVS) engaged winegrowers in a participatory research approach aiming to assess the relationships between agronomic practices and soil microbiological quality. Participant winegrowers entered into close collaboration with ecology researchers both to collect data and to interpret global and individual soil health diagnoses. Following a pragmatic sociology approach, we conducted 22 semistructured interviews with participant winegrowers in order to understand how their engagement in EVS had impacted their practices, knowledge, and professional networks. We found that the impacts of EVS on agronomic change are independent of the value of the diagnosis and depend primarily on contextual factors: winegrowers plan to modify their practices after their engagement in the EVS protocol only if their current technical itinerary is not well stabilized and if they do not face strong limiting environmental constraints. We also show that winegrowers interpret their individual EVS diagnosis on the basis of what we characterize as their formal, experiential, and ethical knowledge. We furthermore suggest that, beyond the scientific results they provide, participatory research projects in ecology are valuable in that they foster peer group discussions. These results raise broader questions on the role of ecological expertise in fostering farmers’ adoption of environmentally sustainable practices, by deciphering how this expertise interferes with specific agronomic situations and the different forms of knowledge held by farmers.</p>

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Participatory research in ecology for agroecological transitions: a case study in viticulture

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    2026年4月14日

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  • Baptiste Bedessem,
  • Cyril Zappelini,
  • Antoine Mathias,
  • Pierre-Alain Maron,
  • Samuel Dequiedt,
  • Lionel Ranjard

摘要

Participatory ecological research in agricultural contexts is on the rise. Developing collaboration between farmers and ecology researchers is expected to both foster the acquisition of fundamental knowledge and guide farmers towards the adoption of ecological practices through the co-construction of relevant expertise. Yet the impacts of these participatory approaches on farmers’ practices are still poorly characterized. In this paper, we tackle this issue by considering as a case study a participatory research project in viticulture (EcoVitiSol®) conducted in 2022–2023 in the Côtes-de-Provence AOC vineyards (France). EcoVitiSol® (EVS) engaged winegrowers in a participatory research approach aiming to assess the relationships between agronomic practices and soil microbiological quality. Participant winegrowers entered into close collaboration with ecology researchers both to collect data and to interpret global and individual soil health diagnoses. Following a pragmatic sociology approach, we conducted 22 semistructured interviews with participant winegrowers in order to understand how their engagement in EVS had impacted their practices, knowledge, and professional networks. We found that the impacts of EVS on agronomic change are independent of the value of the diagnosis and depend primarily on contextual factors: winegrowers plan to modify their practices after their engagement in the EVS protocol only if their current technical itinerary is not well stabilized and if they do not face strong limiting environmental constraints. We also show that winegrowers interpret their individual EVS diagnosis on the basis of what we characterize as their formal, experiential, and ethical knowledge. We furthermore suggest that, beyond the scientific results they provide, participatory research projects in ecology are valuable in that they foster peer group discussions. These results raise broader questions on the role of ecological expertise in fostering farmers’ adoption of environmentally sustainable practices, by deciphering how this expertise interferes with specific agronomic situations and the different forms of knowledge held by farmers.