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Sibylle Bui
Groupe de Recherche en Droit Economie et Gestion, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, 06560 Valbonne, France

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Journal article
Published: 29 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The environmental and social issues caused by agricultural and food distribution practices call for a profound reconfiguration of the agri-food system. This paper is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the way such a reconfiguration may be fostered. Building on recent developments of transition studies that analyze whole system reconfigurations, it proposes a pragmatist, whole system approach to examine the socio-political dimension of sustainability transitions. Based on the ethnographic and longitudinal study of a unique case of (territorial) agroecological transition in France, it identifies the mechanisms involved in a transition and the way actors enacted them. It characterizes required prior, incremental system changes, and stresses the role of multiple niches that influence simultaneously the various components of the agri-food system. From an action-oriented perspective, these results suggest that transitions may be fostered by: (1) supporting the diffusion of an alternative technological paradigm within the regime that niches may be congruent with; (2) stimulating the development of a diversity of radical innovations related to the various dimensions of the agri-food system and fostering their interactions with the regime; and (3) moving from a technology-driven approach of innovation towards an emphasis on organizational innovations that foster the rebalancing of power relations.

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Sibylle Bui. Enacting Transitions—The Combined Effect of Multiple Niches in Whole System Reconfiguration. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6135 .

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Sibylle Bui. Enacting Transitions—The Combined Effect of Multiple Niches in Whole System Reconfiguration. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6135.

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Sibylle Bui. 2021. "Enacting Transitions—The Combined Effect of Multiple Niches in Whole System Reconfiguration." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6135.

Journal article
Published: 11 February 2019 in Journal of Rural Studies
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Reconfiguration of power relations is crucial to transformations in agro-food systems. In this paper, we propose a conceptual basis for understanding this relation, building on the approaches to power of transition studies and other strands of studies. We explore the conditions for reconfigurations to occur by analysing three cases, concerning participatory plant breeding in Italy, public food procurement in France and diversification of agrifood chains in Wales. We highlight the critical importance of creating enabling relational environments, where power reconfiguration can occur. Within this new configuration, new, diverse sources of power are mobilized and new practices and institutions are co-constructed and legitimised, establishing the conditions for new socio-technical trajectories to emerge and for further transformative potential to develop. Our results show that a more variegated and dynamic configuration of power relations is needed. Transformations of agrifood systems depend on the variety of interactions that, in a multi-scale and dynamic dimension and through the play of the different forms of power, may develop among the actors involved. Understanding these processes and the implications that they show in terms of governance is critical.

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Adanella Rossi; Sibylle Bui; Terry Marsden. Redefining power relations in agrifood systems. Journal of Rural Studies 2019, 68, 147 -158.

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Adanella Rossi, Sibylle Bui, Terry Marsden. Redefining power relations in agrifood systems. Journal of Rural Studies. 2019; 68 ():147-158.

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Adanella Rossi; Sibylle Bui; Terry Marsden. 2019. "Redefining power relations in agrifood systems." Journal of Rural Studies 68, no. : 147-158.

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Published: 07 February 2019 in Agriculture and Human Values
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Food retailers are powerful actors of the agro-industrial food system. They exert strong lock-in effects that hinder transitions towards more sustainable agri-food systems. Indeed, their marketing practices generally result in excluding the most sustainable food products, such as local, low-input, small-scale farmers’ products. Recently in Belgium, several initiatives have been created to enable the introduction of local products on supermarket shelves. In this article, we study three of those initiatives to analyse if the development of local sourcing in supermarkets opens up an opportunity for a transition towards more sustainable agri-food systems. We conceptualise transitions as a shift in governance and ethical values and adopt a pragmatist approach of ethics combined with the systemic perspective of transition studies, to evaluate the impact of these initiatives. Our analysis shows that they mainly contribute to the reproduction of the incumbent agri-food system. It also highlights that first, to be a driver for sustainability transitions, food ethics need to be systemic i.e. relate to a systemic understanding of problems and perspective of sustainability, including social justice. And second, it highlights that governance arrangements involving not only representative organisations of the various agri-food and non-agricultural actors, but also actors upholding ethical values that are currently missing in conventional supply chains and representing excluded and marginalised interests, favour the uptake of such systemic ethics by incumbent actors. Hence, systemic ethics and inclusive governance are key features for initiatives to contribute to a sustainability transition.

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Sibylle Bui; Ionara Costa; Olivier De Schutter; Tom Dedeurwaerdere; Marek Hudon; Marlene Feyereisen. Systemic ethics and inclusive governance: two key prerequisites for sustainability transitions of agri-food systems. Agriculture and Human Values 2019, 36, 277 -288.

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Sibylle Bui, Ionara Costa, Olivier De Schutter, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Marek Hudon, Marlene Feyereisen. Systemic ethics and inclusive governance: two key prerequisites for sustainability transitions of agri-food systems. Agriculture and Human Values. 2019; 36 (2):277-288.

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Sibylle Bui; Ionara Costa; Olivier De Schutter; Tom Dedeurwaerdere; Marek Hudon; Marlene Feyereisen. 2019. "Systemic ethics and inclusive governance: two key prerequisites for sustainability transitions of agri-food systems." Agriculture and Human Values 36, no. 2: 277-288.

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Published: 09 January 2018 in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
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Recently established organic regions aim to be model regions of sustainability. In the frame of this article we understand organic regions as territories that aim at the sustainable management of local resources, based on the principles of organic farming and agroecology. The contribution focuses especially on the role and configurations of values-based supply chains for the territorial development of such organic regions. Three different case studies, in Italy, France and Austria, are investigated. Principles of organic farming, according to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement and the concept of neo-endogenous development by Christopher Ray, serve as framework for analyses. Finally, we include values-based supply chains into the model of neo-endogenous development for two reasons: first to link values on a territorial level, and second as a tool to permanently apply those values within a region.

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Rike Stotten; Sibylle Bui; Patrizia Pugliese; Markus Schermer; Claire Lamine. Organic Values-Based Supply Chains as a Tool for Territorial Development: A Comparative Analysis of Three European Organic Regions. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 2018, 1 .

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Rike Stotten, Sibylle Bui, Patrizia Pugliese, Markus Schermer, Claire Lamine. Organic Values-Based Supply Chains as a Tool for Territorial Development: A Comparative Analysis of Three European Organic Regions. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 2018; ():1.

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Rike Stotten; Sibylle Bui; Patrizia Pugliese; Markus Schermer; Claire Lamine. 2018. "Organic Values-Based Supply Chains as a Tool for Territorial Development: A Comparative Analysis of Three European Organic Regions." The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2016 in Journal of Rural Studies
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Changing farming practices is a major issue for sustainability. Such change is difficult to bring about because of strong lock-in effects within the agri-food system. Scholars have mobilized diverse approaches to address the issue of changes in agriculture, including the multi-level perspective (MLP). However, the mechanisms through which “niches” can contribute to regime reconfiguration are still unclear. In this article, we combine the diachronic and systemic approach from the MLP with insights from French pragmatic sociology and from the Alternative Food Networks literature. We analyse the trajectories of four initiatives, which can be considered as niches, as they associate various actors and develop radical innovations. Comparing their trajectories allows us to identify a generic pattern in niche development and niche-regime interactions. We identify regime reconfiguration mechanisms common to all four case studies. Niche activities and the enrolment of new actors lead to a gradual reconfiguration of the regime: first, through the construction of shared visions of agri-food issues and of the associated network of relevant actors; second, through their embedding in local policies and public action

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Sibylle Bui; A. Cardona; C. Lamine; M. Cerf. Sustainability transitions: Insights on processes of niche-regime interaction and regime reconfiguration in agri-food systems. Journal of Rural Studies 2016, 48, 92 -103.

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Sibylle Bui, A. Cardona, C. Lamine, M. Cerf. Sustainability transitions: Insights on processes of niche-regime interaction and regime reconfiguration in agri-food systems. Journal of Rural Studies. 2016; 48 ():92-103.

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Sibylle Bui; A. Cardona; C. Lamine; M. Cerf. 2016. "Sustainability transitions: Insights on processes of niche-regime interaction and regime reconfiguration in agri-food systems." Journal of Rural Studies 48, no. : 92-103.

Book chapter
Published: 14 December 2011 in Repenser la protection des cultures
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Pierre Ricci; Claire Lamine; Sibylle Bui. Chapitre 1. La gestion de la santé des cultures dans une optique de développement durable. Repenser la protection des cultures 2011, 17 -28.

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Pierre Ricci, Claire Lamine, Sibylle Bui. Chapitre 1. La gestion de la santé des cultures dans une optique de développement durable. Repenser la protection des cultures. 2011; ():17-28.

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Pierre Ricci; Claire Lamine; Sibylle Bui. 2011. "Chapitre 1. La gestion de la santé des cultures dans une optique de développement durable." Repenser la protection des cultures , no. : 17-28.