NORTH AND SOUTH FACING CRISIS NEW METROPOLITAN MARKET GARDENING NETWORKS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE TERRITORIES? A COMPARISON BETWEEN BUENOS AIRES AND STOCKHOLM
Résumé
Several economical, political and social crises affected both Argentina and Sweden more or less recently. Those times of intense disturbances implied several changes in their production system, especially in their farming system. These break points are the bearer of some important evolutions of metropolitan territories pattern on a regional scale, especially in the Buenos Aires and Stockholm metropolitan areas. We propose a comparison between two ways to react to the farming system crisis in Northern or in Southern countries in focusing on changing supplying networks of fresh products (organic and quality products in Stockholm and conventional ones in Buenos Aires). In Buenos Aires or in Stockholm, agricultural systems are changed by players coming from the outside of agricultural systems where they settle in, and organized into community networks. They have introduced a more small-scale, familial and intensive agriculture and created shorter supplying networks to connect production and marketing activities (wholesale market in Buenos Aires, farmers' markets in Stockholm). These agricultural and social innovations are the fruits of initiatives from the bottom taken up by the State and the political authorities, which have some legislative tools to ratify territorial resettings vis-a-vis land stakes. Both political attitudes are meeting the same need for socio-territorial sustainability, as much as an environmental sustainability.
Domaines
Agriculture, économie et politique
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