Soutien d'une filiere dominante ou developpement territorial ? Le cas du sucre a La ReunionSugarcane industry preservation or local development? A case study in La Reunion

摘要

The agricultural policy of La Reunion island is largely concerned with the sugarcane industry. The overrepresentation of this production among the others is an inheritance of the times when the island was a "sugar island". Nowadays, things have changed. La Reunion and the economical activities it develops are inserted in multistage and embedded systems superimposed with local potentialities and constraints that cannot be ignored. Whereas European productivist agricultural policies are questioned and seek to develop the non-productive and non-commercial functions of agriculture, the sugarcane agricultural policy remains deeply influenced by the colonial past and evolves with difficulties. A close look at institutional practices relating to the maintenance of this industry and the protection of agricultural land shows how difficult it is to reconcile the productivist approach and territorial development.