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The article explores the governance arrangements of collectives of producers who pool their logistics ressources in order to improve the distribution of their products in short food supply chains. The aim is to understand the extent to which these collectives, by designing their own rules and going beyond their own objectives, foster a territorial food governance. Our analysis is based on a study of 3 logistics collectives in Hauts-de-France. We consider them as forms of coordination alternative to the market: the cooperation of the stakeholders aims to achieve a double goal of logistical profitability and territorial development. We choose to define this double goal as a search for territorial performance. While the literature questions the links between food and territorial development, these collectives present themselves as experimental laboratories for territorial development and governance from two points of view. On the one hand, the process of designing institutional arrangements is also, for the collectives, a learning process likely to provide useful feedbacks on how to foster multiactors and multi-scale cooperation in a territory. On the other hand, their ability to cooperate in a territory can provide a starting point for identifying the relevant scale of territorial food governance. Thus, the analysis of these collective allow us to discuss, in the final section, the relevant scale of food systems in transition and to outline a framework for measuring the territorial performance of short food supply chains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]