Academy of Excellence "Space, Environment, Risk and Resilience"
AUtonomy and Food Resilience through Short Circuits in Towns: contributions of geo-foresight
Understanding and assessing food risk in the Alpes Maritimes in a multitemporal context: understanding the present, taking into account the past, to better anticipate possible futures in terms of food autonomy.
Academy 3 highlight
This project is part of the "Environmental challenges linked to energy and resource use" strategic priority.
The project
AURACLE began in 2022 with the funding of a ministerial thesis grant, a thesis currently being conducted by Juliette Benedetti. The project is part of a wider dynamic, that of the 2014 law establishing the Territorial Food Plans, TAP, aiming at the reterritorialization of food systems through the concertation of all the actors of the food chains: production, distribution and consumption.
The project focuses on short food and proximity circuits in the town of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes. The objective is to deploy geo-prospecting tools to identify short food and proximity circuits, to analyse the strengths and obstacles of this food chain in order to propose prospective scenarios for food sovereignty in the Nice area.
By financing two master's degree courses in 2022, Academy 3 enabled the project to collect and analyse a database more quickly, based on interviews with distributors in consumption and production areas.
Three types of circuits were identified in this first phase of the project:
- short and local circuits, within a regional perimeter, through which typical regional products pass, and which allow a good flow of information from the producer to the customer;
- local circuits, also within a regional perimeter ;
- 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.
Pictures of the field surveys, on the stalls of the Libération market (left) and in a retail store in Nice (right). |
Mapping the location of businesses in Nice offering local food products by Léa Mansion |
The +:
- The construction of a dense, complete, usable database collected quickly..
- The trainee/doctoral team: "This multi-partner research experience was rewarding from all sides: both from the point of view of the amount of data collected in record time and for the analysis of the results"
What's next?
Project information:
Scientific field:
Geography, Economics
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Theme: Food, Food risks, Agriculture |
Keywords: Short and local circuits, Food re-territorialisation, Food sovereignty Geo-foresight |
Budget allocated by Academy 3 for the gratification of 2 trainees: 5 915k |
Project members: Stéphane Bouissou, Karine Emsellem, Juliette Benedetti |
Involved laboratories: ESPACE |