Filière Paysanne

01/1970

Filière Paysanne started in 2009 when Jean-Christophe Robert decided to create the first peasant grocery store (“Epicerie Paysanne”) in Marseille, which opened in 2010. The latter was transformed into a cooperative (SCOP) and sold to its employees in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, Filière Paysanne accompanied the creation of 4 new peasant grocery stores in the Bouches-du-Rhône Department. The association carries out other activities to support the development and operation of peasant grocery stores: training, setting up local supply platforms, policy advocacy, etc.

Στοιχεία επικοινωνίας

Νομικό πλαίσιο & Προϋπολογισμός

Filière Paysanne is a citizen association. The first pilot grocery store had 5 employees, 3 of whom took over the store as a SCOP in 2013. Other stores have either associative or a private company status and represent in total 15 full-time equivalents (salaried or self-employed workers).

Δραστηριότητες

Filière Paysanne coordinates a network of peasant grocery stores in cities and offers training for owners and project promoters as well as other support services. To date, member grocery stores supply around 5,000 households with local food from organic and peasant agriculture. Since 2012, the association has developed the Plateforme Paysanne Locale (Local Peasant Platform), a logistic platform which collects, pools, transports and delivers local agricultural products to public and private beneficiaries (collective catering, restaurants).

>Καινοτομία & Αποτελέσματα

This innovative economic model is based on a specifically local supply and on the practice of fair margins, allowing the viability of grocery stores and an equitable sharing of the value between producers and retailers. The 5 grocery stores created or accompanied in the past 7 years generate an overall turnover of about € 2 million, more than half of which goes to local producers in the territory (approx. 500 tons of produce purchased). In addition, through collaboration with public and private actors of food distribution, the Local Peasant Platform allows for a better purchasing capacity and price.