Active supported 2 social and solidarity grocery stores through a project group. Around 5 dimensions: territorial, social, economic, governance, environmental.
Establishment of “third food places” such as:
• laboratory of agricultural and food transition
• lever of social and territorial transition
• educate and raise awareness of food issues
• regenerate peri-urban and rural areas
• relocate local market gardening
Objectives retained
• Produce differently, collectively
• Promote food transition and innovation
• Consume differently
• Diversity
• Set up waste recovery circuits
Sub-objectives: development of a new range of food products (sustainable food) and non-food products (second-hand or do-it-yourself); act for a course of social support for beneficiaries with time for consultation, decisions and shared evaluation; mobilize, make actors in the various services of-fered.
The objective of this work is to achieve a synthe-sis, to make it a political lever (= to act on the course of things) by proposing a transmission tool at the end of the support which gives to see, which gives desire, that we can learn from. Social and solidarity grocery stores was also asked to re-port on their support and strategic and operational implementation in this process of transition, evolution, change during an event in 2021.
Resources needed
Methodology support on the solidarity and ecological transition
3 employees
Evidence of success
The establishment of working groups with audiences from different but complementary backgrounds: em-ployees - volunteers - community technicians - students - researchers - citizens - farmers - business leaders - employees of traditional companies - members of others associations
1st phase: internal diagnosis of social and solidarity grocery stores
2nd phase: territorial diagnosis and establishment of a working group
Establishment of “third food places”
Difficulties encountered
Experiment quickly enough with the solutions decided upon collectively to be able to install them or not in the long term in the activities of social and solidarity grocery stores: example → bulk products - workshop for the manufacture of household products – composting.
Potential for learning or transfer
This mission is the subject of an experiment with two social and solidarity grocery stores. However, the implementation of our methodology applied to all food aid actors and more broadly to public and associative actors who make up the territories.
