1 février 2014
Jean Lagane, « Vers une ré-émergence des marchés paysans à Marseille. Quand les citoyens soutiennent le retour de l'écologie urbaine », HAL-SHS : sciences de l'information, de la communication et des bibliothèques, ID : 10670/1.jen7qv
Feeding the city of Marseille has turned into a huge challenge as global food networks increase the fragile relationships between urban residents and the surrounding rural territories. This contribution deals with the current situation of Marseille which is presented in matters of environmental challenges such as global warming and metropolization while these latter aspects enhance the necessity to reconsider the main food provisioning system of the Phocean city. Supported by a three-year-long ethnographic study conducted on the “Marché du Cours Julien” in the city centre of Marseille, this paper also questions how the citizens of Marseille succeeded through their actions to revive local farmers’ markets on the urban scene and encourage bottom-up ecologization.Then, in a last part, standing on the fact that the Cours Julien farmers’ market hosts a French version of Community-supported agriculture (CSA), links with the development of Alternative Food Networks and Short Food Supply Chains are analyzed as well as the help they can provide to redefine human-nature relations in our fast urbanizing society.