Yuna Chiffoleau – Research Director, Sociologist
April 2023
Since 2005, Yuna Chiffoleau has been interested in short food circuits as collective actions that help to build a more ecological, democratic and inclusive economy in local areas. She is committed to measuring the impact of these short circuits on producers and consumers.
This work helped to define the outlines and objectives of the “territorial food projects” introduced in the 2014 law on the future of agriculture. Since then, she has been working on their deployment and evaluation in support of both local public policies and local stakeholders.
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Thematic dossier
Food and regions: INRAE scientists supporting regional food projects
Over the last 60 years, the places where food is produced, processed and consumed have gradually moved further apart: from farm to fork, the distances have increased. Faced with this phenomenon, local authorities have gradually demanded that they ‘reclaim’ their agri-food systems. INRAE scientists have been working closely with local players on these issues, in particular the ACT department, which has been conducting research into territorial dynamics for almost 40 years. In 2014, the deployment of ‘territorial food projects’, a new tool in local food policy, called on a wide range of scientific knowledge and methods, now involving several INRAE departments. This dossier is an initial look at the involvement of INRAE scientists in the implementation of local food projects.
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