Three initiatives wereselectedfor their ability to raise awareness among territorial decision-makers of the challenges of agroecology and sustainable food systems. Supported for a total amount of €200,000, theseinitiatives are the result of a call for projects that was launched following the lessons learned from our program TETRAA, which has supported the territories in their agroecological and food transition. The winners will carry out concrete actions to make food a shared and visible subject.
Union nationale des CCAS – Raising CCAS awareness
UNCCAS
The Union nationale des centers communaux et intercommunaux d’action sociale (UNCCAS) is a federation of 4,300 CCAS/CIAS in mainland France and overseas, representing 75% of the French population. Most CCASs have been involved in food aid and social support for their beneficiaries for many years, in a wide variety of ways. Given the stakes involved in ensuring access to sustainable, high-quality food for all, UNCCAS has made this one of its 5 priorities. The association supports elected representatives and staff in this transition, with a central objective: to help implement local projects guided by the need for high-quality foodstuffs and greater consideration of environmental and public health issues. To this end, a “food” working group made up of elected representatives and technicians will steer discussions at national level. Group discussions and the sharing of best practices will promote the development of links between CCAS/CIAS and local players, to encourage the implementation of concerted projects based on the complementarities of each. The impact of the project will be felt by the vulnerable groups supported by the CCASs (single-parent families, isolated people, recipients of minimum social benefits, the working poor, young people, etc.).
Association Le Lierre – Solutions transitions – agroecology
Le Lierre – Ecologist network of public action professionals
The ambition of the Solutions Transitions project is to be useful in a non-partisan way to those who are taking action or want to commit themselves to better implementing the ecological, agro-ecological and solidarity-based transition at municipal and inter-municipal levels. It is supported by the Le Lierre association, which brings together civil servants, contract workers, public servants, experts, consultants and public policy players. With the aim of overcoming divisions, the project will be deployed primarily in small and medium-sized towns, which have fewer engineering resources, but also in rural areas. It will take the form of a toolbox in the form of operational fact sheets available on a dedicated website, and a series of events (conferences, theme days, round-table discussions). Cooperation with key partners (public operators, think-tanks, NGOs, associations of territorial decision-makers, etc.) will enable us to complement each other in terms of expertise and dissemination, to reinforce the “understand-pilot-act” triptych that guides this project.
Local Right to Food Alliances
For several years, Secours Catholique, the Civam Network, Vrac, Action Against Hunger, Ugess, Altaa, and Solidarité Paysans have been working together at the local level to promote dignified access to sustainable food. On the strength of these experiences, this consortium aims to strengthen mobilization throughout mainland France and overseas around the issues of agricultural and food insecurity, health, biodiversity, etc. Among the actions planned: coordination to raise awareness among decision-makers at the local and national levels, the pooling of tools for mobilization from farm to fork, the organization of public debates, meetings and events in order to challenge and encourage commitment. The alliance is based on a foundation that is both scientific and rooted in the experiences of the people concerned.