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Nat. Sci. Soc.
Volume 32, Number 1, Janvier/Mars 2024
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Page(s) | 98 - 104 | |
Section | Regards – Focus | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2024028 | |
Published online | 02 September 2024 |
PlantCoopLab, coopérer avec les plantes pour une alimentation durable
PlantCoopLab, cooperating with plants for sustainable food systems
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Philosophie, INRAE, UMR SADAPT, Palaiseau, France
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Ethnologie, SupAgro Montpellier, UMR Innovation, Montpellier, France
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Sociologie, INRAE, UMR Innovation, Montpellier, France
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Sémiotique, Université de Limoges, UR Espaces humains et interactions culturelles, Limoges, France
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Sociologie, AgroParisTech, UMR SADAPT, Palaiseau, France
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Sociologie, INRAE, UMR Innovation, Montpellier, France
* Auteur correspondant : sylvie.pouteau@inrae.fr
Autant le statut des animaux dans les systèmes productifs fait l’objet de débats, autant la définition de la durabilité alimentaire n’implique aucun égard particulier pour les plantes. Le projet PlantCoopLab trouve son inspiration dans ce constat et dans le « tournant végétal » qui appelle à revisiter le statut des plantes. Dans une logique de production économique, faire signifie en général produire des biens ou des services par le travail. Dans le cas des plantes, le « faire » est-il aussi un travail ? Sans pour autant impliquer une personnification, cette question permet de repenser les activités végétales au-delà d’une lecture seulement techniciste, ce qui conduit aussi à reconsidérer le travail effectué avec les plantes. Le projet analyse plus largement la reconnaissance de ce travail comme moyen d’infléchir les pratiques nécessaires à la fourniture de nourritures durables.
Abstract
While the status of animals in production systems is a subject of debate, the definition of food sustainability does not involve any special consideration for plants. Yet, considering plants and food as a central technological ingredient in our culture of convenience needs to be contrasted with a recent ‘plant turn’ that calls for reassessing the standing of plants. The PlantCoopLab project draws its inspiration from this observation and aims to promote an attitudinal shift or reorientation of values. To overcome viewing plant food as a device, the emphasis is put on labor and agentivity. In the rationale of economic production, ‘to do’ generally means to produce goods or services through labor. In the case of plants, does ‘to do’ also mean labor? What does the act of ‘being at work’ imply for plants and when working with plants? The challenge is to depart from a functionalist and mechanistic interpretation of plant life, without falling into the trap of speculative interpretation. The recognition of plant labor is taken as a means for changing practices necessary for the supply of sustainable foods. It seeks to acknowledge the interconnection between the farmers’ co-acting skills and comprehension and the actual agentive ecology of food production. Finally, it endeavors to develop a vision of sustainability which can oppose the social disburdenment that contributes to an increasingly industrialized agriculture.
Mots clés : agriculture / alimentation durable / humanités végétales / travail des plantes / transdisciplinarité
Key words: agriculture / food sustainability / plant humanities / plant labor / transdisciplinarity
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