Agricultural cooperatives represent nearly 75% of all farmers in France. They have become major actors in the development of rural spaces. Over the past 30 years, French cooperatives have steadily modified their organizational structures in response to changes in the economic environment,...

This paper aims to characterize the location patterns of agricultural cooperatives in France for 1995 and 2005, in order to better understand the determinants of their spatial organization. We first use the ESDA tools to establish a very detailed local typology of the specific location patterns...