Legal Instruments to Support Short Food Supply Chains and Local Food Systems in France

Anna Maria Kapała
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Anna Maria Kapała: Department of Applied Economics, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, 50-363 Wrocław, Poland

Laws, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-14

Abstract: The aim of the study is to identify legal instruments, implemented in France, supporting short food supply chains and, more generally, local food systems. The research has identified these tools from a variety of domains and levels, including national laws, government policies, and local government initiatives, and analysed them in relation to various forms of short supply chains present in French territory, which are the key components of local food systems, such as direct marketing, producers’ stores, basket systems, urban agriculture, and deliveries to public catering. Overall, the French instruments are multiple, diverse, mostly innovative, take into account social, environmental, and solidarity values, and can be good examples to follow. Most of them are established at the local level, being thus an expression of new models of local food governance, corresponding to the values of a participative economy and food democracy.

Keywords: local food systems; short supply chains; direct sales; French law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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