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Three main periods in the history of the use of the concept of innovation in agriculture can be distinguished (Temple et al. 2019). The first period, which does not explicitly discuss the notion of innovation, but the question of technical progress, is affirmed by agricultural scientists, covers the two centuries preceding World War II. The second period covers the 30–40 years following World War II, during which the notion of innovation, posited by Schumpeter (1935), was deployed in all sectors. The third period, starting in the 1980s, is marked by a concomitance between the questioning of the previous development model and a renewal of the concept of innovation that diversifies its use in agriculture. Through the prism of these three periods, we will successively examine how the scientific communities have dealt with agricultural innovation, in order to explore the specificities of agricultural and food activities that make these activities interact with the use or conceptualization of innovation.