Whereas many studies adopting a broad perspective on sustainability have highlighted the differences and interactions between alternative and conventional models of agricultural production, very few have investigated the contradictions internal to farm organizations engaged in agroecological transition. In order to understand the difficulties faced by farmers in combining multiple aspirations, we study agroecological production cooperatives (APCs) through the tensions between their different institutional logics. We use a qualitative analysis to address these tensions, and the responses to them, related to their territorial, self-management, and agroecological logics. Various local actors have different conceptions of agroecology, based on diverse levels of knowledge of agricultural practices and on dissimilar interests. This entails various preferences regarding technical choices and farm management. Agroecology's emphasis on diversity, local resources, experimentation, labour intensity and the long run may contradict financial considerations and the quality of working conditions of farmers. Setting up deliberation arenas is key to elaborating agreed compromises regarding the agroecological conception, as well as the governance of farm organizations.

尽管许多对可持续性持广泛看法的研究强调了替代性农业生产模式与传统农业生产模式之间的差异和相互作用，但很少有研究涉及从事农业生态转型的农业组织内部的矛盾。为了了解农民在结合多种愿望方面面临的困难，我们通过其不同制度逻辑之间的张力来研究农业生态生产合作社（APC）。我们使用定性分析来解决这些紧张局势，以及对它们的领土，自我管理和农业生态逻辑的回应。基于对农业实践知识的不同了解和不同的兴趣，各地的不同行为者对农业生态学的看法也不尽相同。这就需要有关技术选择和农场管理的各种偏好。农业生态学对多样性，当地资源，试验，劳动强度和长期的重视可能与财务考虑和农民的工作条件质量背道而驰。建立讨论区是就农业生态概念以及对农场组织的治理拟定达成共识的折衷方案的关键。