Successful sustainable transitions require an understanding of the drivers and resources needed to support the required changes. While the importance of farmers' collectives in these transitions is underlined by various scientific studies and public policies, we lack an overview of how scholars are dealing with this topic. This paper has two main objectives: i) a review of the studies that explore the interplay between exchanges among collectives and the farmers' transition pathways to sustainable agriculture, and ii) a conceptual framework to analyze this interplay. Drawing on a review of 43 scientific articles, it highlights a variety of possible theoretical and methodological approaches and interpretations to inform our understanding. Based on the literature, we have distinguished four perspectives in this field: i) the way farmers rely on collectives during their transition process; ii) the collectives as complex organizations; iii) the collectives as loci for knowing; and iv) learning processes among collectives. We also show that these studies fail to provide insights on the interplay between the farmers' dynamics of transitioning towards sustainable agriculture and those of the collectives, and the way it contributes to supporting professional transition. To illuminate this interplay, we introduce a conceptual framework based on Deweyian pragmatism and developmental approaches that allows us to analyze the transition process as one of farmer empowerment. We focus on the farmers’ experience, on the way they are affected by their working situations, and on how support for inquiry can help them rebuild meaning and continuity in their transitions. This work should contribute to informing the circulation of agroecological knowledge issues and enable stakeholders who support these processes to find the most appropriate levers for a diversity of farmers and farming systems.

成功的可持续过渡需要了解支持所需变更的驱动因素和资源。尽管各种科学研究和公共政策都强调了农民集体在这些过渡中的重要性，但我们仍未对学者如何处理这一主题进行概述。本文有两个主要目标：i）研究集体之间的交流与农民向可持续农业过渡的途径之间相互作用的研究综述； ii）分析这种相互作用的概念框架。通过回顾43篇科学文章，它着重介绍了各种可能的理论和方法论方法和解释，以加深我们的理解。根据文献，我们区分了该领域的四个观点：i）农民在过渡过程中依靠集体的方式；ii）集体为复杂组织；iii）集体作为知识的所在地；iv）集体之间的学习过程。我们还表明，这些研究未能提供有关农民向可持续农业过渡的动力与集体的动力之间的相互作用及其对支持专业转型的贡献的见解。为了阐明这种相互作用，我们引入了一个基于杜威实用主义和发展性方法的概念框架，使我们能够分析作为农民赋权之一的过渡过程。我们关注于农民的经验，他们受工作状况影响的方式以及对调查的支持如何帮助他们在过渡中重新建立意义和持续发展。