Roger, Antoine <br/><br/>
Harversting the Scientific Field 

 -  2013.<br/>							 
<br/><br/> 95 
<br/><br/> The paper aims to shed some light on how agrochemical multinational companies manage to orient academic research and have it contribute to the promotion of intensive agriculture. The case of Romania is examined based on empirical fieldwork. We refute the main explanation of the commitment of researchers to industry, that they are enrolled only because of the provision of new sources of funding by industry. We highlight the structuring effect of divisions within the scientific field. Romanian agronomy is torn by internal divisions that stem from the combination of trajectories followed under the communist regime and the development of new international academic networks. Researchers from the Academy of agricultural and forestry sciences and those from Universities of agricultural sciences and veterinary medicine hold very different positions. As a consequence, fierce wars of classification break out between them. Agrochemical companies fuel the conflict by giving to both parties the means to bolster their arguments. In return, all Romanian researchers are prone to smear small-scale farming and to legitimisethe development of big farms devoted to intensive agriculture.