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In 2020 the latest French national agricultural censuses show the drastic decline and ageing of the farming population At the same time the re-territorialisation of agriculture has been developing particularly around large cities with the rise of AMAPs Association pour le Maintien d une Agriculture Paysanne in French for example In 2014 the French state created a policy to support local farming farmers renewal and local food supply chains the Territorial Food Projects TFP illustrating the rise of the food thematic at the expense of agriculture in french national and local policies TFPs aim to adopt a cross-cutting perspective and to integrate urban-rural relationships issues They support territorialized food systems and short food supply chains They are first structured at municipal or regional level second based on a shared diagnosis of agriculture and food in the territory between the stakeholders concerned third on a quality objective in terms of ethics environment health nutrition etc and fourth on its interconnectedness This local management allows concerted action between political stakeholders and local food production system actors thus enable them to produce a coordinated food and agricultural policy at local level In 2020 local food supply chains have really taken off with the covid-19 pandemic and TFPs have emerged as key policies to meet France s agricultural challenges and fight de-peasantisation In the framework of the European H2020 project Ruralization the CNRS team analysed the impact of TFPs on the local development of rural areas Indeed this new policy deeply bottom up and favouring action at the local level raises questions what type of agriculture does it encourage Does it meet farmers needs Does it meet the needs of the inhabitants Does it make food accessible to all What interactions between urban and rural actors does it promote And more broadly what kind of local society does it create Based on several local case studies and reports the aim of this paper is to understand dynamics and impacts of TFPs on rural regeneration on farmers installation and on agricultural land s preservation It aims also to reflect on the limits of this territorial policy and on the evolution of agricultural policies in France

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Territorial Food Projects in France: a tool for rural innovation and regeneration?

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