myBetween the hidden cost of pesticides on ecosystems and our health and the rise of food insecurity in our country, our food system can no longer avoid radical transformation. Feeding ourselves tomorrow will require adequately articulating the ecological transformation of agriculture and the advent of new social relationships with food. But it will also have to rely on a greater number of agricultural workers. To inspire these transformations, we are interested in looking at the way certain urban farm projects address these issues and how these structures accompany an essential “return to the land.”
The observation is clear: by 2026, 45% of farmers will cease their activity. Therefore, the next decade will be decisive. Are we going to opt for returning to the land, or are we going to accept seeing the number of agricultural farms fall even further, when there are already 200 that disappear every week? It is imperative to improve agricultural facilities and ensure the recovery of existing farms, in particular to guarantee the development of organic farming areas, the reorientation of animal production towards quality and energy autonomy, diversification, the preservation of biodiversity , etc. possible to respond to the food vulnerabilities of our territories.
If numerous organizations, such as the chambers of agriculture or territorial development and rural establishment companies (Safer), have the mission of guaranteeing before the State “maintain the farms by ensuring the installation and transfer of the farms to efficient, sustainable and viable projects”We can only confirm its inability to contain the phenomena of concentration and financialization of agricultural holdings, a consequence of the rationalization of productive activities desired by the downstream sectors.
The profile of the people who settle today has evolved profoundly. Most project leaders are “not of agricultural origin” (NIMA), they settle later and are usually women. For many, they are developing an organic farming project (40% in Brittany, in 2023) and/or short chain farming. But those responsible for the project face the difficulty of a path that is still poorly adapted, a very rigid statute and limited access to public aid.
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