Agri-Food Projects in Food Land Belts: Conditions for Success
Journal Title: Current Investigations in Agriculture and Current Research - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
While Green Belts go back in several countries principally to the end of the Second World War [1], Food Land Belts are much more recent, particularly from the end of the 20th Century onwards, following various sanitary food crises which led to this desire to re- localize foodstuff. What is interesting about Food Land Belts is that they involve a multitude of Agri-food projects, linking agricultural production directly to the consumers who sought healthy locally produced foodstuff for which the source was known [2]. While on the one hand they certainly help conserve agricultural land and farm activities, on the other hand they provide a means of linking the countryside in peri-urban areas around cities directly to the cities. This connection comes from a) non-farm citizens who are concerned with having access to healthy foodstuffs and who initiate the vast majority of initiatives to relocate the sources of their foodstuffs so that they know the sources of their foodstuffs and their location of production [3] and b) partly from small groups of farmers, both leading to a renewal of the linkages between cities and countryside [4]. However, it is clear that not all projects have been successful while others have been very successful and continue to be successful. What makes the difference? We tackle this issue in the next section as it is very important both for farmers and consumers and this research domain represents a field of research that is becoming increasingly important in several countries around the world
Authors and Affiliations
Antonia D Bousbaine, Christopher R Bryant
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