| Summary: | The concept of urban agriculture upsets the categories of thinking and practising the territories of city and agriculture, categories still largely associated with separate worlds. Indeed, the emergence of urban agriculture is often associated with processes of hybridization of urban and agricultural logics. Examples of urban farms, archetypal manifestations of urban agriculture, in three regions of Switzerland are used to examine the extent and scope of these processes. Which major hybridizations do they involve ? To what extent do they challenge the logic of urban and rural development ? The answers to this question allow, on the one hand, to define more precisely what urban farms are and, on the other hand, to test the scope and limits of these hybridization processes. Four types of hybridizations – uses and functions, land use, actors and land tenure - are identified and discussed. Our hypothesis is that entry through hybridization and its limits is a relevant framework for observing, understanding and analysing the changes generated by urban farms and, more generally, urban agriculture.
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