Territorial food value chains for sustainable food systems: initiatives from the French national food programme

摘要

The French national policy for food is led by the French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry and associates 14 other ministries. This public policy is defined operationally in the National Programme for Food (PNA), with four major axes: social justice, food education targeted to youth, the fight against food waste and territorial anchorage. Deployment at territorial levels of the national food policy aims at operationalizing the social, economic and environmental dimensions and objectives,towards sustainable food value chains. This paper focuses on the subnational levels of the PNA and on an innovative disposition called "territorial food projects", introduced in the law for the future of agriculture, food and forests of 14 October 2014.It briefly describes the objectives and the organization of food public policy at national and subnational (regional) levels: objectives, multistakeholder governance, tools and the role of the state. It then presents a set of initiatives with a territorial approach, showing how they contribute to build sustainable food value chains.