Add to ORKGInternational audienceThis lecture revisits in the light of recent data the main lines of evidence indicating that MHD processes play a crucial role in jets from young stars. Measurements of jet collimation and jet ejection-accretion efficiencies are reviewed and compared at various evolutionary stages (from protostars to optically revealed objects). It is then shown that they cannot satisfactorily be accounted for by purely hydrodynamical processes. MHD magneto-centrifugal ejection (combining magnetic self-collimation and magnetic acceleration) appears as the most effective mechanism able to reproduce the observed jet properties at all evolutionary phases. The jets would then be intimately linked to angular momentum extraction from the acc...