"Pour et sur le developpement régional"

Summary in the original language of the document

The first PSDR ( research program for and about regional development) program have begun in 1994. A new generation has been set up from 2001 to 2004 in the regions of Bourgogne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Pays de la Loire and Rhône-Alpes. This program is characterized by 3 points:
• a research in partnership for the research questions conception and their valorization,
• complex research objects which need an interdisciplinary work,
• A program opened to other research organisms and universities.
This program concerned 3 thematics:
• Thematic 1: Regional development and agricultural production process
• Thematic 2: Regional approach of the environment and management of the rural areas
• Thematic 3: Products, firms, food industry, dies and territories
• Thematic 4: Public policies, actor networks, territorial and regional dynamics.
Only a small part of this program concerns organic farming. This part corresponds to the thematic 3, and concerns food systems.