The Territorial Governance of Organic Food and Farming in Mainstream Agricultural Spaces – The Case of Paris-Region
Résumé
This paper examines the role of organic food in the territorial making of. Drawing upon recent regional policies in Paris Region, we argue that these policies are a base of territorial governance. The focus is explored by the linkage between actors. These actors belong at vertical level or horizontal level. However, the interviews with principal actors show it is more complex. The territorial governance depends, so, the power and the biopower. Now, the challenge to Paris Region is to make accepted the organic food development in its economic policy. The organic farming creates new territorial form and a new territorial management. There is increasing evidences convergence between two systems: mainstream agricultural model and alternative food systems. Organic food system becomes a fundamental stake for the Paris-Region Council as a thriving economic policy, an alternative to the rural as a residential space and urban sprawl and a politic symbol of a sustainable development programmatic.