Evolution agrotechnique contemporaine

*Introduction
Farmers collective’ brands are emerging in the French dairy sector, where collectives of farmers are being structured in such a way as to cope with global changes. With the end of the quotas, the dairy sector has lost an important regulation tool to manage competition between farmers, processors and territories at European and national level (Dervillé and Allaire, 2014). On the one hand, this change in scale of regulation questions the economic viability of the dairy production (...)

#Introduction
Agricultural machinery and digital technologies, the main components of the “agritech” sector, play a crucial role in farming innovation and its transitions towards sustainability, for instance, to operationalize agroecology [1,2]. The agritech sector involves a heterogeneous set of stakeholders operating at multiple levels. Structural recent evolutions of agriculture – such as the expectation of increased production and better environmental performances from a decreasing number (...)

*Introduction
Three major causal factors can be highlighted in the development and adoption of digital technologies (hereafter DT) in agriculture, at least in developed countries (FAO, 2017). First, the number of farmers decreases, and their average age is growing. Recruitment difficulties and shortages of skilled labour became therefore a recurring problem, easing the way for the emergence of automated equipment. Second, technical innovation is increasingly incentivized to face on the one (...)