Sustainable Agri-food Systems by Claire Lamine

Author:Claire Lamine [Lamine, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Agriculture & Food, Political Science, Public Policy, Agriculture & Food Policy, Business & Economics, Industries, Food Industry, Nature, Natural Resources
ISBN: 9781350101142
Google: IFjyDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-09-03T04:14:55+00:00

II. The Drôme valley

The Drôme valley, in southern France, is a small region (about 2,000 km2, and 60,000 inh.) where about 30 per cent of the agricultural land is organically farmed (in 2016). The development of organic agriculture, like that of specialty products, was initially seen as a way to sustain local agriculture, which was threatened by processes of rural exodus, lack of competitiveness and agricultural crises. From the early 1990s, local policies were implemented in the valley with the objective of turning this ‘hinterland of the productivist period’ into ‘a foreland of the quality turn’ (Bui 2015). Based on public programmes and funds, a common project involving the four local producers’ cooperatives was implemented in 1992, with the objective of facilitating transitions towards organic agriculture. This programme supported the investment in new organic collecting and processing equipment within the local cooperatives, as well as specific marketing actions. It supported and highlighted complementarities between the different regional crops (grain, wine, medicinal and aromatic plants) that were often grown on the same farms, thus mainly addressing the production side of the ecological transition.

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