Olive-oil consumption is increasing quickly, therefore the olive groves are spreading after one century of uninterrupted and steep decline. The examples of plantations and orchard rehabilitations are numerous. The new economic viability of olives helps to implement different policies : fire fighting, landscape and patrimonial development, social integration. A real strategy of territorial development based on the recent improvement of the olive's economic pathway is taking off. The exceptional interest in the olive grove resides in the fertile crossroad between the vertical processes of the economic pathway and the horizontal processes of territory which correspond to a real social demand.Avec une consommation d'huile d'olive en rapide prog...