AURACLE

The Auracle project was started in 2022 with doctoral research conducted by Juliette Benedetti. It is part of a wider research project aimed at understanding the dynamics of re-territorialization of food systems through the consultation with all the actors of the food chains: production, distribution and consumption. The project focuses on short food and proximity circuits in the city of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. The objective is to deploy geo-prospecting tools to identify the dynamics of agriculture and the potential for maintaining short and local food supply chains in a context of democratization of long supply chains. Ultimately, this project will define prospective scenarios for food sovereignty in the Nice area. With the support of Academy 3, we were able to collect and analyze data drawn from interviews with distributors in consumption and production areas. Three types of supply chains were identified in the first phase of the project:

• Short and local supply chains, within a region, in which typical regional products circulate, and which allow a good flow of information from producer to customer.
• Local supply chains, also within a region.
• “Short and local stages” with products processed locally but produced anywhere in the world.

The project team around Stéphane Bouissou and Juliette Benedetti will then focus on the last phase of the project: the co-construction of geo-prospective scenarios for food sovereignty in the Nice area.