La contribution des méthodes prospectives à appuyer des stratégies pastorales en Méditerrannée à travers l'example de la Corse

International audiencePastoralism is a practice of animal production based on the exclusive or partial use of spontaneous resources. It is therefore likely to meet the challenges of the agro-ecological transition. As in many Mediterranean regions, Corsica has a very old pastoral transition, today questioned by the reduction in the number of farms, the closure of environments, the abandonment of grazing management practices on rangelands and a reduction of transhumance. In this context, what can be the prospects for pastoral farming in Corsica? To support the implementation of a pastoral strategy for public action, a prospective workshop based on the territorial prospective approach tried to answer this complex question. A group, made up of around thirty volunteer experts and various actors, all involved personally in pastoralism in Corsica, have met during four one-day sessions. They problematized the question, established a shared diagnosis of the present situation and planned future prospects by identifying transformative processes, crossing and combining these processes to build scenarios and challenge stake - holders.Each of four scenarios was built by considering successively, the men and women as actors of pastoralism, the animals and their valorization (species, breeds, products, markets), the policies and the organizations (the CAP , the local authorities, the sector organizations ), the territories of pastoralism (mountain rangelands, forests, scrubs, cultivated areas and crops):S1 - The memorial pastoralism scenario: Pastoralism remains the reference backdrop but development priorities go to other non-agricultural activities.S2 - The scenario of a rediscovered pastoralism: We are witnessing a vast movement to live and work in the country by developing local production and a sylvo-pastoral orientation.S3 - The scenario of a pastoralism redesigned by the downstream sector: Pastoral components are marginal but symbolic contributors for Corsican livestock farming with other productive ambitions.S4 - The scenario of the new pastoral enterprise: In a world of radical and rapid changes, pastoralism is part of a new pluri active and innovative farm and start up economyThen, we discuss the conditions for stabilizing a pastoral strategy towards an assumed final scenario that would combine these different proposals. The conclusions of the workshop underlined the absence of a true pastoral technical model still to build, the need to invest in engineering, pluri disciplinary research, education and permanent training for breeders while limiting the perverse effects of CAP subsidies.This prospective also leads to question the limits of the intervention of research and expertise in the design and governance of public policies, and more generally, the difficulty of moving from diagnosis to operational proposals