French Agriculture

Agriculture developed in the vicinity of the city has always been an activity parallel to the growth of cities. This practice defined in recent decades peri-urban agriculture, has recently become the object of study for researchers, scholars and other planners, who observed the interactions between the city and the countryside trying to find and channelling the potential of this territory. You should then study main connotations of peri-urban agriculture with the aim of identifying agricultural strategies from some meaningful experiences that can provide valid elements to encourage future practices of territorial planning in other peri-urban contexts. The analysis surely part of the argument between between the city and the countryside, and thus the problem of Metropolitan peripheries, caused by the gradual process of consumption and abandonment of the agricultural territory urban, yet unstoppable phenomenon and which has been experiencing a worrying acceleration in recent years. This problem leads to study and learn about the concept of peri-urban agriculture and synthesize the most important guidelines related to the protection, promotion and sustainability of the agricultural practices of proximity on a global scale, acting as liaison for further analysis of the peri-urban territory at national and local level. Under this highlight the guidelines and guidance provided by the United Nations, in particular by FAO, its work and that of other agencies international.

It emerges, in this context, the European Union, single entity worldwide that has been generated policies aimed at the development and sustainability of agriculture, developing steadily, to deal with specific situations as in the case of peri-urban agriculture. Here come two case studies identified in France and Italy.