<p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">La communication autour des effets du commerce &eacute;quitable sur les territoires dans lesquels il s&rsquo;inscrit joue un r&ocirc;le essentiel dans son d&eacute;veloppement. Dans la mouvance des travaux de recherche sur l&rsquo;impact du commerce &eacute;quitable et sur ses capacit&eacute;s &agrave; transformer durablement les relations socio-&eacute;conomiques, cet article a pour objectif de comparer les effets du commerce &eacute;quitable &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;chelle des organisations de producteurs et &agrave; celle du territoire o&ugrave; ils vivent. La recherche effectu&eacute;e sur le territoire de l&rsquo;arganier au Maroc </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">montre une &eacute;volution des coop&eacute;ratives &eacute;tudi&eacute;es qui prennent conscience de devenir parties prenantes de l&rsquo;am&eacute;nagement du territoire dans une logique de d&eacute;veloppement durable, au-del&agrave; de l&rsquo;int&eacute;r&ecirc;t &eacute;conomique &agrave; court terme qui constituait initialement leur unique facteur de motivation. Cette prise de conscience contraste avec la conception du r&ocirc;le limit&eacute; que joue le commerce &eacute;quitable dans la transformation durable des relations socio-&eacute;conomiques &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;chelle du territoire qu&rsquo;ont les acteurs clefs du r&eacute;seau d&rsquo;institutions publiques et de repr&eacute;sentants de producteurs cr&eacute;&eacute;s par le gouvernement marocain pour le d&eacute;veloppement de la fili&egrave;re de l&rsquo;argan. Au-del&agrave; du projet initial de l&rsquo;&eacute;valuation des effets locaux du commerce &eacute;quitable et de sa capacit&eacute; &agrave; transformer durablement les relations socio-&eacute;conomiques en vue de sa communication aupr&egrave;s des consommateurs, cette recherche met en lumi&egrave;re une pluralit&eacute; de probl&eacute;matiques communicationnelles en amont de la fili&egrave;re, &agrave; l&rsquo;&eacute;chelle du territoire.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Communication on the <span style="color:black">impact of fair trade on its operating </span>territories is of prime interest for its development. In line with researches <span style="color:black">on the impact of fair trade and on its capacities to transform socio-economic relationships in the long term, this article aims to compare the impact of fair trade at the level of producer organizations as well as at the level of the territory where they operate. The research carried ou</span>t on the argan tree <span style="color:black">territory in Morocco stresses an evolution of the studied cooperatives. They become aware of b</span>ecoming stakeholders in regional planning in a logic of sustainable development, beyond the short-term economic interest, which was initially their trigger. This awareness contrasts with the conception of the limited role played by fair trade in the sustainable transformation of socio-economic relations on the territory <span style="color:black">scale put up by the </span>key players of the network of public institutions and representatives of producers created by the Moroccan government for the argan sector&rsquo;s development. Beyond the initial project of evaluating the local effects of fair trade and its capacity to transform socio-economic relationships in the long term in the perspective of communicating with consumers, this research highlights a plurality of communication issues upstream of the sector, on a territorial scale.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify; margin-bottom:11px">&nbsp;</p>