2021-2026 TransIndianDairy
Intitulé du projet : Transition agroécologique des systèmes laitiers indiens : une approche intégrée du changement institutionnel.
Équipe de recherche : UMR LEREPS
Financement : ANR JCJC
TransIndianDairy is a 48-month project funded by the French National Research Agency for a period of 48 months (https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-21-CE03-0016).
This project aims to understand the role of technical, organisational and institutional innovations in the implementation of large-scale agro-ecological transitions in four Indian states (Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat), as well as the role of ruminant livestock in these transitions.
Project coordinated by Marie Dervillé (LEREPS, ENSFEA), a specialist in dairy systems in Asia, she has surrounded herself with a high quality multidisciplinary team, both in India and in France, which includes researchers from the biotechnical sciences (agronomists, soil scientists and hydrologists) and social sciences (economists, geographers, political scientists and geographers).
WP 1: Practices, business models and social metabolism at work in the transitions
This WP investigates the transition in its technical and organisational dimension together with the relatedbiophysical processes through an analysis of the diversity of practices, business models and outcomesemerging locally. It will be done by integrating in an innovative way three tasks based on complementary frameworks: comparative agriculture, business models and social metabolism.
Interview with the manager of a producer shop (Majkhali, Ranikhet, Uttarakhand; source: Vigroux, 2023)
WP 2: Multiscale polycentric governance of the transitions and property rights regimes
The aim of this WP is to shed light on institutional change through a systematic analysis of the rules stakeholders used to coordinate, create and exchange value in dairy systems. The objective is to analyse and explain public policies and regulations as they relate to different sectoral and institutions framing stakeholders’ interactions and governance structures.
Canal used to irrigate paddy fields. The canals are managed by the villager through the Gram Sabha and built by the Micro-irrigation department (Naini, Ranikhet, Uttarakhand; source: Vigroux, 2023)
WP 3: Information systems & modelling for sustainability
WP3 aims at rethinking multicriteria information systems and modelling so as to support institutional change and the decentralised yet nested management of common and public resources. Towards this end three types of information systems will be mobilised, structuring the following tasks.
WP 4: Conceptual and experimental design principles for polycentric reflexive governance of agroecological transitions
The ambition of this transversal and integrative WP is to lay the foundation for a generic model of a local yet embedded collective capacity for action, based on the unique institutional framework and multilevel, multidisciplinary methodology developed in the project.
