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The Contribution of Short Food Chains to Agricultural and Food Practices Diversity: The Case of Open-Air Markets

This article explores the role of short food chains, specifically open-air markets, in promoting agricultural and food practices diversity. It highlights the case of Grabels market in France, which prioritizes local and sustainable products. The article discusses the impact of short food chains on agricultural practices, consumer behavior, and the transition towards more sustainable food systems.

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The Contribution of Short Food Chains to Agricultural and Food Practices Diversity: The Case of Open-Air Markets

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  1. The contribution of short food chains to agricultural and food practices diversity: the (forbidden) case of open-air markets Yuna Chiffoleau UMR Innovation et Développement dans l’Agriculture et l’Alimentation, Montpellier, France Co-leader of the RMT Alimentation locale Coordinator of the « Urban food systems » priority, INRA SAD Euragri Workshop Diversity, Brussels, 31st of May, 2017

  2. Briefoverwiew of short foodchains in France • National definitionsince 2009 : 0 to 1 intermediary, and policy support • 1/5 farms (2010), and diversification • 42% buyers (2013), and diversification • Open-air markets : traditional, and traditionally, spaces of mixity short-long foodchains; 2nd SFC for farmers ; the mostappreciated SFC by consumers • Public policytool, but littleconsidered by policy-makers • Manyonesdeclining • Some innovations

  3. The case of Grabels market • Open-air market created with INRA in 2008 in a peri-urban city, Grabels (7.000 inhabitants in Montpellier periphery) to strengthen ‘social link’ and support small-scale agriculture • Rejection of both organic and farmers’ market (‘too elitist’, ‘too irregular’) • Implementation of a ‘short food supply chain market’, new formula in France, privileging short chains and ‘local’ and ‘sustainable products’ as defined collectively (150 km, seasonality, no industrial techniques, environment-friendly agriculture) • Market based on a charter, a collegial committee (sellers/consumers/local authority) • In response to consumers’ mistrust, coloured labels on stalls to indicate origin and respect of the sustainability criteria → Labelling system + committee + participatory control = free collective brand Ici.C.Local (INRA/Grabels)

  4. Direct selling Grabels : < 150 km, seasonal products, no warmed greenhouses nor industrial breeding Short chain with 1 intermediary Same criteria Out of short chains But seasonal products

  5. Results and perspectives • Diversification and ecologization of agricultural practices: from ‘middle’ agriculture to more diversified and qualitative products, to get more green labels • Creation / strengthening of networks between producers, between producers and resellers, to get more orange labels • Bifurcation of “ordinary” consumers towards more sustainable food practices Which mechanisms behind the transition? Learning ; Social control ; Self-esteem ; Social participation → From open-air markets to food democracy, to favour food systems transition, with a diversity of pathways, and in a diversity of dimensions (multi-criteria assessment) Diffusion of Ici.C.Local in France: a participatory network of observation and assessment Opening research and development questions around sustainable/local – relocalisation of processed food

  6. For more information Contact : yuna.chiffoleau@inra.fr http://www.sad.inra.fr/Partenariat-innovation/Ici.C.Local-Valoriser-les-circuits-courts-dans-les-territoires/ Chiffoleau Yuna, Millet-Amrani Sarah and Canard Arielle, 2016. From Short Food Supply Chains to Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems: Food Democracy as a Vector of Transition. Agriculture, 6(4), 57; doi:10.3390/agriculture6040057 

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