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Modéliser l'ancrage territorial de l'agriculture : application à l'étude de la durabilité d'une agriculture côtière sous pression touristique

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The territorial base of agriculture is a key to understand the sustainability of this activity, in hybrid territories like peri-urban areas or rural touristic ones. To this aim, the French method of the "agrarian systems" is improved by the concept of "territorial agrarian system": the territory is then a meta-system of the agrarian system that leads to understand the linkage between the individual trajectories of farmers and the global and collective expectations of the territorial stakeholders. This conceptual, methodological and practical approach is applied to the rural touristic area of Balagne, a seaside territory located at the Northwest Corsica. There, as a subject torn between land pressure and the touristic development of rural assets, agriculture is at the heart of contradictory stakes. The systemic analysis leads to conclude that even if owning land is a necessary condition for a "sustainabland" development, it is insufficient.