28 janvier 2019
Feedback on territorialized food systems
Territorial approaches contribute to the agricultural and food transition. Whether they are called “short circuits” or “territorialized food projects”, they reconnect eaters and producers, and facilitate cooperation. They often involve agroecological and job-creating production methods. We believe in these approaches, and have been supporting them since 2014 in France and Spain. In 2018, we brought together 22 projects, in connection with Territorialized Food Systems, supported in France and Spain.
Following a year-long participatory process, analysis and sharing of experiences with these projects, we wish to testify to the learnings collected from these actors of the Transition.
We share with you here the results of our approach through: a “Carasso Notebook”, detailed sheets allowing access to the more technical elements of each project and videos.
Carasso Notebook - Learning - Territorialized food systems
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 3 MB
Food'Earth
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 354 KB
Atlases
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 306 KB
Biovallée
28 jan. 2019
Ceres
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 319 KB
Micro markets
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 305 KB
Eating organic here and now
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 276 KB
The plural peasant Prévalaye
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 310 KB
The House of Sustainable Food Education
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 281 KB
Open Food France
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 352 KB
Feeding Cordoba
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 199 KB
Articulation of the regional food system - Madrid
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 194 KB
Menorca's Food Strategy
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 200 KB
Navas Circuit: towards food sovereignty
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 194 KB
A healthy food system - Pamplona
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 196 KB
National Network of Cities for Agroecology
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 190 KB
The West Agroecological Sierra
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 204 KB
Alliances for Food Governance in Valencia
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 202 KB
The Food Strategy of Valladolid and neighbouring municipalities
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 193 KB
Sustainability of the agri-food system in Vitoria-Gasteiz
28 jan. 2019 · PDF 191 KB
Find below the feedback from the Biovallée (Drôme, France)
The objectives of an eco-territory are declined at the level of a local food strategy.
“A historical dynamic carried by a rural community in which food policy and territorial policy converge towards sustainable development”
Find below the feedback from Nantes Micromarkets (France)
Their objective: Les Micromarchés and La Grande Barge, a social and solidarity economy project to bring the inhabitants of the Ile de Nantes closer to quality local food
“A project led by civil society that questions the economic accessibility of food within a metropolis”
Find below the feedback from the city of Pamplona (Spain)
Their objective: To supply school canteens with organic and local products: structuring circuits and raising awareness among the educational community.
“Pamplona, a pioneering city for the introduction of organic and local products in collective catering”
Find below the feedback from the Brocéliance region (France)
Their objective: To support the food strategy of the Pays de Brocéliande and to draw lessons from it for the French territories
“The concrete actions of a country supported by development and research actors”
Find below the feedback from the city of Navas (Spain)
Their objective: To support and promote initiatives to promote the transition to a more sustainable food system and create a sustainable governance structure.
“A strategy based on raising awareness among citizens, strengthening the productive sector and establishing governance”
Find below the feedback from the city of Valencia (Spain)
Their objective: To build transition processes towards a fairer, sustainable and resilient food system.
“The project relies on the participation and collaboration of actors who have an influence on the agri-food system”
Methodology
Bibliography, interviews, collective intelligence workshops to frame the methodology, individual interviews, field visits, collective validation and debate… The objective of this experimental approach is to “capitalise” on the experience of 22 leaders or accompanists of territorial food projects, in France and Spain. The analysis of the trajectories brought out a large number of points of attention. Collectively, the project leaders prioritized, and then selected, the questions that seemed essential to them for the success of a territorialized food system. The questions focused on how they mobilised local actors and structured their governance, as well as on the economic models implemented by each project. Based on this grid, the survey work was carried out in the field to collect experiences and testimonies. The participatory nature, which resulted in collective times of reflection and validation, guarantees the relevance of the lessons learned and their resonance with the problems of sustainable food actors.
This work was carried out by the teams of AOConsulting and the Challenges department (Development, expertise, training, engineering for the South) of Montpellier SupAgro for France, and by those of the NGO Cerai (Centre for Rural Studies and International Agriculture) for Spain.
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We have noted the importance of economic, governance and stakeholder mobilization issues for the stability of these territorial approaches. While collective catering often remains a central tool for local authorities, it is expanded with multiple complementary initiatives, relayed in this Carasso Notebook. We hope that you will find inspiration, hindsight on your own territorial approaches, useful contacts.
»Guilhem Soutou
Head of the Sustainable Food Axis
Photo © Istock – Magann
Video © Pierre Fromentin
