UM atUM [S02-ep27]: From Local Food Policies to Biologging
This week on *AUM science*, Coline Perrin, a geography researcher at the Innovation Laboratory, talks to us about the role of food policies in the relationship between cities and rural areas. Then the report takes us to Sète, where the Coastal and Marine Research Center has just opened its doors. Finally, our guest for the last three minutes is Agnès Lèbre, an astronomer and deputy director of the Montpellier Environmental Research Observatory (OREME). The program airs on Divergence FM-93.9 every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
In 2014, following the enactment of the Law on the Future of Agriculture, Food, and Forests, the Montpellier metropolitan area became the first in France to launch its own agroecological and food policy, the P2A. Its goal: to provide healthy, locally sourced food to as many people as possible, and to support the local economy as well as employment in agriculture and the agri-food sector. Over the past ten years, the number of vineyards in the metropolitan area has dropped from 703 to 299, and more than 84% of the farms in the region currently have no successor. The P2A also aims to , preserve the landscape heritage and natural resources, adapt to climate change by limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and, finally, promote social cohesion—particularly the ties between the city and the countryside.
Since then, the idea has gained traction across the region and is being implemented in various forms as PATs—territorial food projects. As early as 2015, the Metropolis signed the Urban Food Policy Pact in Milan, alongside some 100 cities from around the world. In 2019, it hosted the pact’s5thsummit, which brought together more than 200 cities. But how can this multitude of local projects truly change the relationship between the city and the countryside? That is the question we are asking our guest today. Coline Perrin is a researcher at INRAE’s Innovation Laboratory. She has studied these efforts to relocalize or reterritorialize food policies, focusing on PATs.
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In the second half of the program, we head to Sète, where CELIMER, the research center for coastal and marine studies, has just opened its doors on the IFREMER campus. Laurent Dagorn from the Marbec laboratory takes us to the biologging platform, where animals are tagged with transmitters that allow researchers to track their movements.
Finally, our guest for the last three minutes is Agnès Lèbre, an astronomer and deputy director of the Research Environmental Research Observatory (Oreme), who is presenting a lecture on June 26 at 2:00 p.m. on the Triolet campus on the environmental impacts of digital technology.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Reporting and editing: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Director: Naomi Charmetan
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