The role of local authorities in food governance: The case of the Tours-Métropole-Val-de-Loire territorial food project

Le rôle des collectivités locales dans la gouvernance alimentaire: le cas du projet alimentaire territorial de Tours-Métropole-Val-de-Loire

José Serrano (), Céline Tanguay () and Jean-Louis Yengué ()
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José Serrano: CITERES - Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés - UT - Université de Tours - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Céline Tanguay: CITERES - Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés - UT - Université de Tours - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean-Louis Yengué: RURALITES - RURALITES – Rural, Urbain, Acteurs, Liens, Territoires, Environnement, Sociétés - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers, FED 4229 - Fédération Territoires - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: The 2014 law on the future of agriculture, food, and forestry aims to promote the relocation of food production to the local level by emphasizing the key role of local actors. It proposes territorial food projects as a public tool facilitating the coordination of their action within a project-based approach. Therefore, the law gives local authorities a key role in the governance of stakeholders. In this article, the authors look at a food relocalization experiment by studying the Tours-Métropole-Val-de-Loire territorial food project. They demonstrate that Tours-Métropole adopted a "technicist" approach that preserved the predominance of traditional supply chain actors in the local food system.

Keywords: local supply of food products; relocalization of agricultural production; Tours-Val-de-Loire metropolis; territorial food project; projet alimentaire territorial; métropole Tours-Val-de-Loire; relocalisation production agricole; circuit alimentaire de proximité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Économie rurale, 2021, 375, pp.41-59. ⟨10.4000/economierurale.8563⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/economierurale.8563

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