International audienceThe aim of this paper is to examine the factors and socio-geographical contexts favourable to the emergence of forms of agri-food transition in the French metropolitan context. Observations made in different Norman areas (Perche ornais, Granville hinterland, Norman bocage) lead to the formulation of two working hypotheses in which forms of agri-food transition would be carried by productive-residential systems in strong renewal:1 - Rural areas hosting populations with higher economic and cultural capital are seeing a sustained demand for local supply of agricultural products.2 - Some of the agricultural installations on alternative systems are also the product of residential migration from the towns to the countryside....