Frederic Wallet (p)

Adam Polko

Collapse of biodiversity, climate change, soil depletion, drought and pollution of waters: all those elements that once seemed abstract to us and distant are now our daily lives, and the prospects are alarming. Today, the need for a transition from the model agriculture and food is on everyone's mind and in many speeches… but not necessarily in all practices.
The path to agri-food system transition will only be not unique, just like the solutions for a power supply sustainable.
Initiatives for more sustainable food are blooming. CSA, producer shops, social grocery stores, collaborative supermarkets, public action for a more local and sustainable supply of canteens… These steps allow to regain control over the stalls of traders and our plates, in other words to reconstitute a form of food sovereignty, which also involves reconnecting of supplies with local, between producers and consumers.
Food autonomy requires being careful not to fall in the trap of everything local. It's not about drawing food territories cut off from the world: this would make them even more vulnerable to climatic events and epidemics.
In the other hand, interdependence climate, community of resources and mobility of populations argue for a necessarily global response.
Food self-sufficiency is a way to find, at the scale of territories, compromises on an agri-food model that accelerates the transition to more sustainable development sustainable, ensuring the health of populations and ecosystems while promoting access for all to quality food and by allowing actors in the food chain to obtain a fair compensation. In other words, it is making food, and its production system, a common good at the heart of a territorial project.
In this perspective, the French government launched the Territorial Food Projects program in 2014, labeling the first projects in 2016. Today more than 300 projects are listed across France. These projects are diverse in terms of their themes and their governance. The purpose of this communication is 1/ to report on this diversity, 2/ to see to what extent these food projects contribute to establishing food as common in the territories, 3/ to estimate to what extent these approaches contribute to the construction of the transition trajectory of development models in the territories.
The analyzes will be carried out using the databases on the French Networks of Territorial Food Projects, and the more in-depth examination of 3 case studies.

Grace Kassis (p), Nathalie Bertrand, Tina Rambonilaza

Frederic Wallet

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Adam Polko (p), Artur Ochojski (p)

Grace Kassis

The aim of the paper is to present the results of research on urban commoners in action. Selected communities from Polish cities have been examined in terms of governing the shared urban resources, cooperation with local authorities and their impact on local development. The research concerns two cities in Poland, which differ the level of participatory governance. The results of the study show the influence of local authorities' policy on the development of urban commons and the activity of urban communities. The research helps to formulate recommendations on the support that local authorities can provide in creating conditions for urban commons. We point out that the coexistence of urban commoners and local authorities is conducive to the development of urban commons.