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This booklet proposes and illustrates through concrete examples some principles aimed at encouraging a better taking in account of the plurality of visions of ecologisation in the approaches for supporting agri-food transitions. This issue, which is not yet well addressed in the available guides and current approaches, is nevertheless central because it has a strong influence on the transition process. Indeed, the greater or lesser extent to which the plurality of visions is taken into account will promote or, on the contrary, weaken both the ambition and the scope of the transition.

Introduction
Territorial agri-food transitions are by nature multi-actor dynamics since they involve actors, networks and organizations embodying the different "links" of agri-food systems. An agri-food transition with an ecologisation ambition requires systemic transformations of territorial food systems. However, actors generally have different and sometimes opposite visions of the desirable transition and of ecologisation, which is often remain implicit behind other transition issues considered to be priorities (e.g., relocalization).

In the support process, this diversity of views is often seen as a reality that needs to be "overcome”. Above all, it is associated with divergent interests and plural values, and is perceived as necessary but potentially generating conflicts or obstacles, and therefore rather problematic. The aim of accompanying is to manage this tension between necessity and risk by inviting a diversity of actors to the debates, and by taking care to anticipate conflicts. On the one hand, this often leads to equating the diversity of visions with the diversity of actors, by associating actors or categories of actors with certain visions, or even by identifying and involving actors on the basis of the vision they are supposed to defend, without seeking to explain these visions and their plurality. On the other hand, if the diversity of stakeholders is considered positive, there is often a tendency to try to reduce the gaps between the visions and to work out a compromise, which is seen as the guarantee of a project's success.