Auvergne – France

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Population Group Targeted

Healthy children and adolescents, studying in rural and urban areas.

Children
and adolescents
(age: 6-15)

Middle and
high SES

PRESENTATION OF THE AREA AND ITS RELEVANCE

About Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes…

  • Medium mountain and volcanic area (Unesco heritage) 
  • High diversity of plant and animal productions 
  • Territorial Food Plan (PAT) linking urban and rural areas 
  • Decreasing level of future chronic diseases related with overweight/obesity/type 2 diabetes.

MEMBERS

The Green Belt

The Green Belt Pays d'Auvergne is a cooperative society of collective interest (SCIC) created in 2022 by Clermont Auvergne Métropole, the Puy de Dôme Chamber of Agriculture, the SAS Ceinture Verte and Bio 63 and all local actors wishing to invest in the development of the vegetable sector, local and fair trade, and the installation of new farmers in the territory.

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Ecopole of the Val d’Allier

Only Sensitive Natural Area promoting agro-ecological innovation. Experimental farm and agricultural test area welcoming schoolchildren.

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BIOCOOP Puy de Dôme

Biocoop is a cooperative project, which works for sustainable organic farming and fair trade. Born from committed consumers, the Biocoop network strives to place ethics and cooperation at the center of its activity and development.

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AUCHAN Retail

Committed for 55 years, a supermarket who evolves in a changing world, and who today sets out to meet consumers who have become omnichannel, attentive to their purchases and their health.

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Clusterbio Auvergne Rhône Alpes

Missions: - promote organic farming and its labels, - support the economic development of companies, - structure the organic sector from upstream to downstream, - promote the emergence of innovations, - animate and connect a network of companies.

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Vegepolys Valley

Competitiveness cluster bringing together companies, research and training centers in the field of plants around innovative projects.

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BIO 63

Designed as a real development tool responding to the problems specific to organic farming, it supports producers (in conversion or installation in organic), organic development professionals and communities to implement their project around Organic Farming.

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Celnat Company

Offers a wide range of organic products of constant quality, such as cereals, legumes, flour, mueslis or pre-cooked flakes.

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Auvergne Rhône Alpes gourmand

Association supporting the promotion and economic development of the regional food industry, with the support of the Region, and in consultation with regional businesses and players. A real gateway to the sector, the committee puts the various players in touch with one another.

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GREFFE

Inform citizens as well as local and national decision-makers about the dangers that our economic model poses to our planet.

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ALTAA Alliance for Agricultural and Food Transitions, Solagro association

Space for exchange, cooperation and action between associations, communities, researchers, social and solidarity economy companies, citizen groups, etc., to strengthen actions and increase collective skills through a systemic approach.

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ALYMM start up

Goal: to facilitate the transmission of information on food subjects via educational tools accessible to all, and without judgment or guilt.

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CISCA Centre for Social Innovations Clermont Auvergne

An intermediation space whose mission is to support local collective approaches, with a view to bringing out systems and experiments, aimed at ecological, social and democratic transformation on its territory.

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ANIS Etoilé

This association considers food as a means of education in choice, citizenship and living together. Its main activity is the development of a global and systemic understanding of the relationships between food, health, cultures, environment, economy and societies. It also acts to promote the adoption of food systems and practices that are healthier, more resilient, accessible to as many people as possible and supportive.

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CRESNA cooperative

Social utility structure with 11 years of experience, specializing in the process of supporting transitions and changes in dietary behavior and well-being.

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Landestini

Endowment fund and non-profit association, whose mission is to reconnect humans to the earth, nature, rurality, and to contribute to the preservation and diversity of life. Its three action lines revolve around education, commitment through sport and entrepreneurship; and its three main themes are food, agriculture and biodiversity.

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Teilhard De Chardin middle school

Urban middle-school (11-15 years old) in Chamalières

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Saint Hippolyte primary school

Suburban primary school (6-11 years old) near Clermont-Ferrand

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Louis Pasteur high school LEGTA Marmilhat

Suburban high school (15-18 years old) near Clermont-Ferrand

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Mercoeur primary school

Urban primary school (6-11 years old) in Clermont-Ferrand

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Mortaix middle-school

Peri-urban middle-school (11-15 years old) near Clermont-Ferrand

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Jean Macé primary school

Urban primary school (6-11 years old) in Clermont-Ferrand

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Jean Zay primary school

Urban primary school (6-11 years old) in Clermont-Ferrand

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Aydat primary school

Suburban primary school (6-11 years old) near Clermont-Ferrand

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LB NUTRITION Consulting

Accompanies projects related to health, nutrition and well-being and provides a wide variety of expertise and skills ranging from regulatory analysis and development of nutritional products to scientific and nutritional training for prevention and education actions.

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ARS Regional Health Agency Auvergne Rhône Alpes

Public administrative establishment of the French State responsible for implementing health policy in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region

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Clermont Ferrand University Hospital Public Health Unit/University Health Service SSU

The mission of the SSU (University Health Service) is to ensure prevention, health promotion and care (through consultations) for students, by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and psychologists.

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APOP Association for the Management and Prevention of Obesity in Pediatrics

The APOP aims to: - pool skills and experiences around obese children, - promote training and information on pediatric obesity in its various dimensions: medical, psychological, dietetics and physical activity, and to - facilitate access to both families and professionals.

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University Hospital Clermont Ferrand RéPPOP LyRRA

The RéPPOP LyRRA is a city-hospital network, founded in 2004 as part of the National Nutrition and Health Program, in order to better prevent obesity and allow overweight or obese children to access support adapted to their needs.

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CHU Clermont Ferrand CSO CALORIS Auvergne Specialty Center for Obesity

Coordination structure for the management of obesity in the Auvergne region, labelled by the Regional Health Agency as part of the Obesity Plan.

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IREPS Auvergne Rhône Alpes

IREPS develops health promotion in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes by acting on the various determinants of health, and aims to reduce social inequalities in health, paying particular attention to the most vulnerable populations.

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JRU INRAE Toulouse Dr. Michel Duru, INRAE project manager

He works on agroecological transition of food systems. The challenge is to define systemic innovations for healthy and sustainable food while taking into account the finiteness of resources (land, phosphorus, etc.), while reducing our impacts to deal with climate change and pandemics such as obesity and certain infectious diseases.

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JRU INRAE UCA UNH

Human nutrition unit: Plan'Eat and Living lab supervisors

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JRU Center Maurice Halbwachs ENS Paris

As part of the ELFE children's cohort, this center studies perinatal nutrition and breastfeeding, from an international comparative perspective and in multidisciplinarity with epidemiologists and nutritionists. The research also focuses on the construction of food norms, rhythms and habits, objects through which the social and gendered differentiation of practices is studied as well as social inequalities, particularly in childhood and in migratory situations. The fieldwork in schools specifically explored the social differentiation of children, through family food socialization, body representations, school canteens and the food acculturation of migrant children.

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CleRMa laboratory

Studies the development of organizations' collaboration, cooperation or coopetition strategies, as well as the games of multiple actors (private, public, associative) which transform their practices, and the ecosystems in which they evolve, (through multidisciplinary approaches mobilizing theoretical frameworks from strategy, public management, logistics or marketing).

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IADT Auvergne Institute for Territorial Development

Federates and hosts all master's and post-master's level training devoted to territorial development professions, university training in the fields of local development economics, administration of local authorities, geography of rural territories and rural development, public accounting, financial analysis and management of local authorities, project management and training

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JRU Territories

This scientific project is based on interdisciplinarity, with expertise ranging from social sciences (geography, economics, management sciences, political sciences) to biotechnical sciences (agronomy, zootechnical systems)

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Sensory Evaluation and Consumer Study Laboratory JRU Cheeses

This laboratory's missions include: - Support food innovation for the health and satisfaction of consumers and economic actors and measure its acceptability - Explore the perceived value of traditional products with or without distinctive signs of quality - Characterize, determine and position the sensory particularities of products and analyze the factors that influence the sensory characteristics of products - Study the effect of food perception on consumer preferences and food behavior - Study consumer behavior in relation to their perceptions, attitudes, barriers and motivations, preferences and representations/beliefs - Analyze the factors that impact decision-making, information processing and identify the determinants of eating behavior

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Ambert Livradois Forez

The Ambert Livradois community of municipalities of Forez brings together 58 municipalities and 28,800 inhabitants. A territory project is in progress in order to reinforce the quality of life of the inhabitants of the territory and to welcome new populations.

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Puy de Dôme Chamber of Agriculture

Consular body (consular chamber), responsible for representing all the different economic agents in agriculture (farmers, but also owners, employees, agricultural organizations such as mutuals, cooperatives, loan and public utility syndicates) and for supporting farmers in their development.

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Châtel Guyon town hall

French commune, located in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

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Pérignat sur Allier town hall

Village located in Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Covers an area of 490 ha and has 1,541 inhabitants. Its average altitude is 340 m.

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Clermont Auvergne Métropole

Exercising as of right, instead of member municipalities, the powers defined by its statutes, adopted in Community Councils: Economic development, Development of community space, Transport, Waste management, Sustainable development, Water cycle, Housing, City policy, Sport, Culture, Tourism, Roads, Urban planning and development

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Auvergne Rhône Alpes Region for agro food industries

Accompanies companies at all stages of their development: investment, training and employment, innovation, export, access to financing and European projects. Its mission is also to promote the region internationally and highlight its multiple assets to attract new businesses to the territories.

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DRAAF

Main missions: - Competitiveness of the agricultural, agri-food and forestry sectors and development of synergies between economic performance and environmental quality around agro-ecology - Valorization of agricultural and forestry products through a sectoral policy and strengthening of the competitiveness of the agro-food sectors - Health safety and quality of food, animals and plants at the service of the health of citizens - Initial and continuing training adapted to the needs of ecologically and economically efficient agricultural, food and forestry production. Educational, social and professional integration of young people. - Production of data, studies to inform decisions

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City of Clermont Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a university town in central France, near the Chaîne des Puys.

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PAT Grand Clermont PNR Livradois-Forez

This Territorial Food Plan has set itself the objective of "seeking to improve the rate of self-supply of the territory and to offer the inhabitants the conditions for healthy, quality food, accessible to all, from local circuits and contributing to the development of a "remunerative agriculture for the farmer and respectful of the environment” “.

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CONTACT US

Anthony Fardet

Researcher in preventive,
holistic and sustainable diets
Focus on ultra-processed foods​

Claire Planchat-Héry

Researcher in socio-geography on territorial transitions and food strategies.

Edmond Rock

Researcher in nutrition
and & health​, extended
to impact of processing
and along the food system
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