It is often considered that ily land can only be revitalized through actions undertaken by farmersespescially, animal farmers. Howerver, most of the time, farmers projects are subject to public subsidies, and the outmigration of a significant proportion of the agricultural labour force. As a consequence, they are campelled to discuss the conditions of their own survival with other rural decision markers. The adequate polical structures for such a bargain are local communities, which for long have been neglected by farmers. Infact, in front of development problems which are in essence more rural than agricultural, the latters are experienciong difficulties in their new role, at the level of local communities as well as within their own professional unions.
