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BIODET - Exploratory project (2020 - 2022)

The diversity of the determinants of organic food supply in school canteens in primary schools: brakes and levers - BIODET

As a result of its purchase power, mass public catering is considered to be an important lever for a more sustainable agriculture. However, the contribution of organic food products remains small in this sector, 3% on average (Agence Bio), well below the objectives of the Egalim law (20% of organic products as of 2022). Very little is known at this time about the technical and organizational consequences of an increase in the contribution of organic products to supply chains in the mass catering sector.

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this project is to identify, at the level of the municipalities, the different socio-economic, technical and logistical determinants of the contribution of organic products and families of organic products to school canteens.

The project combines two types of methods:

• a quantitative approach of the socio-economic determinants through the econometric analysis of an already existing database to be completed;

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• qualitative analyses over different types of areas in terms of the local organic offer and canteen organization (type of management, methods used to produce meals, etc.)

The results could help local and national decision-makers to better understand the different brakes and levers linked to the increase in organic products in the mass catering sector, as intended by the recent Egalim law, and thus contribute to the agroecological transition of agricultural and food systems.

RESOURCES

The project calls upon the expertise of the following complementary disciplines: economics, agronomy, process engineering and management.

Participants

INRAE Units

  • Agronomie, Grignon
  • SADAPT, Grignon
  • SAYFOOD, Grignon

Partners

  • Association Un plus bio, France

 

Modification date : 18 December 2023 | Publication date : 03 June 2021 | Redactor : Com