Food strategy in the Biovallée

Coordinated by the Val de Drôme Community of Communes

January 2019

Towards a Europe of territorial food systems?

This study is extracted from the analysis of twenty-two French and Spanish projects related to new food models, all highlighting different challenges.

In Spain, governance is being built, while French food systems are looking for solutions to change scale. But in both countries, accessibility remains the weak link.

In order to relocate food in the region, the Val de Drôme Community of Communes (CCVD) and its partners have decided to take action on food practices. To achieve this, three levers are used: raising awareness, supporting collective catering and linking supply and demand at local level.

Val de Drôme

The stakeholders of the Biovallée territory (26) share a common interest: to become a reference ecoterritory in terms of sustainable development. The objectives are: 50% of farmers in organic farming, halving the use of chemical inputs and 80% of organic or local products distributed in out-of-home catering. In 2011, an analysis of the territory’s agricultural offer will encourage elected officials and committed stakeholders to relocate food.

The Val de Drôme Community of Municipalities (CCVD) is responsible for the food strategy, which is divided into three areas:

Supporting voluntary canteens to increase the proportion of organic or local products.
Raising the population’s awareness of sustainable food issues.
Strengthening the match between supply and demand (training actions and creation of a logistics coordination platform).

The implementation of this strategy is being carried out with experienced partners already active in the area: the « Centre d’initiatives pour la valorisation de l’agriculture et du monde rural de la Drôme » (Civam 26), the Drôme organic farmers’ group (Agribiodrôme) and the Court-Circuit association (Agri Court platform).

A logistical coordination platform at the service of the territory’s stakeholders

Linking supply and demand for organic and/or local products requires a great deal of coordination between producers, restaurateurs, local authorities, etc. The Agri Court platform has undergone several changes before today, thanks to the support of its partners and the Val de Drôme Community of Communes, it has reached a situation of balance. To achieve this, economic and organisational decisions have been taken: ensuring sufficient volumes of orders by working with the collective catering sector, optimising deliveries over a dispersed territory, stopping retail sales, introducing « non-organic » producers, diversifying activities through advice and expertise… Two objectives have guided this evolution: fair remuneration for producers and reducing the drudgery of work for the platform’s employees.

A slowdown linked to the regional elections

The financial support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation is the driving force behind the Val de Drôme’s food strategy. It is based on the synergy of existing initiatives in the area. The first phase sets up a horizontal and participative governance, in order to carry out adapted actions, successfully carried out until the regional elections. After a slight slowdown, they are resuming, targeting several issues: the appropriation of actions by local actors, the opening up of governance to new entrants and the empowerment of part of the activities.

Sources

www.fondationcarasso.org/

The relational atlas is a semantic mapping tool. It allows to highlight the main ideas of a document and to link it to other documents dealing with related issues. These are the descriptors that are linked within the atlas and that index documentary resources (experience records, analyses, proposals...).

The "Shopping Cart" button:
You have the possibility to put aside a documentary resource by clicking on the cart next to the name of the resource. The documentary resources that have been set aside are grouped together under this button.

The "History" button keeps track of the descriptors and documents you have clicked on. You have the possibility to print your path or to empty the history with the appropriate icons.
! A descriptor you have clicked on will appear in pink on the atlas!

The "Help" button gives you access to:

the legend of the atlas: the matrix system on which the relational atlas is built: the components of the territory (number/color) and the angles of approach to governance (logo/letter) ;
a navigation guide
a video presentation of CITEGO
a video presentation of the relational atlas (philosophy & uses)
the CITEGO website

You can navigate in the atlas: Back to manual line
– By using the search bar, by proposing one or several keyword(s) and by clicking on the one that interests you. You can refine or broaden your search by clicking on "and"/"or". Manual line return
– By neighborhood, by clicking directly on the descriptors you want.

To consult the documentary resources indexed by the descriptors, click on "documents" under the chosen descriptor. These documents are the experiences, analyses, resources and proposals contained in our documentary fund:

when you click on the title of the chosen document, you access a page presenting its indexation in the atlas;
when you click on the CITEGO logo, you go directly to the reading of the document on the CITEGO website;
when you click on the basket, the document is put aside while you continue to navigate in the atlas. At any time you can consult it in the Shopping Carttab. You can also print this list of documents.

To return to the home page of the atlas, click on the title at the top left Territories, cities and governance.

The Connection tab is reserved for administrators.

To send us your comments and suggestions, contact us at this address: atlasrelationnel[@]citego.org

Télécharger le pense-bête en PDF

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Dossier:

Acteurs, leviers, outils pour mener les transitions du système alimentaire

Linked documents:

Territories:

France