Launch of the “Solidarity Food Territory (TerrAsol)” project, winner of the France 2030 plan

Agricultural and food issues are at the heart of the ecological transition, but also social cohesion and sovereignty. It is driven by this desire to participate in the transformation of its territory that the City and Metropolis of Montpellier responded to the Call for Expression of Interest (AMI) from the Banque des Territoires, as part of the France 2030 Plan , with the “Solidarity Food Territory (TerrAsol)” project from 2022.

After a first stage of maturation between 2022 and 2024, the TErrAsol project was the first French project selected to move into the 5-year “realization” phase in July 2024, with an allocation of €10 million in subsidies for all projects. presented by the collective representing a total budget of €20 million.

On September 30 and October 1, 2024, the 29 project leaders certified by the Banque des Territoires met in Montpellier, on the occasion of the first national meetings of the Territorial Demonstrators of Agricultural and Food Transitions where the participants were able to visit the approved locations by the Caisse Alimentaire Commune (La Cagette, Biocoop, Sentiers de Cévennes), or the MIN to illustrate the metropolitan food strategy of short circuits.

On September 30, 2024 at Corum in Montpellier, Marie Massart and Isabelle Touzard welcomed participants to the first national meetings of Territorial Demonstrators of Agricultural and Food Transitions to present TerrAssol, the winning project of the Banque des Territoires, as part of the France 2030 Plan .

TerrAssol, an innovative and supportive project

The TerrAsol project wants to demonstrate three new forms of agricultural and food solidarity in the broad sense in access to quality food for all in the relations between a metropolis and its nourishing territories between a diversity of actors concerned in the governance of food policy. TerrAssol aims to:

1. Running a citizen committee and a common food fund
2. The creation of solidarity food centers
3. The identification of nourishing territories and their solidarity connections to the metropolis
4. The creation of mobile slaughterhouse tools
5. Raising awareness and training on sustainable food and food solidarity issues
6. The establishment of a territorial food council
7. The creation of a citizen research laboratory
8. The creation of an investment fund for agricultural and food transitions.

A consortium of 16 members

Associations and cooperatives:

• Federation of CIVAM of Occitanie
• CIVAM Was 34
• Common Food Box
• Vrac & Kitchens
• Esperluette
• Terracoopa
• Hauts Val&Co

Research :

• CIRAD (UMR MoISA)
• INRAE ​​(UMR Innovation)
• Montpellier Agro Institute (UNESCO Chair in World Food)
• MSH South

Communities:

• City of Montpellier
• Montpellier Mediterranean Metropolis

Economic actors:

• SLEEPING (MIN)
• Slaughterhouse at the Hérault farm
• Poultry short circuit grouping 34