Noël, Julien <br/><br/>
The activation of proximities in relocalized food supply chains: The case of two territorialized collective organizations in the Pays-de-la-Loire region 

 -  2018.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The proximity-based approach provides an operational conceptual framework to understand sustainable relocalization strategies currently being implemented in food supply chains. The concept of proximity and its various dimensions are mobilized for the study of two cases of territorialized collective organizations in the Pays-de-la-Loire region involved in these food relocalization dynamics. The first one, Bio Loire Ocean, brings together around sixty organic farmers engaged in structuring an organic fruits and vegetables supply chain. The second one is the AMAP poisson Yeu-Nantes, a system of direct sales from fishers on the island of Yeu to consumers in the Nantes area. The analysis of the proximities that are activated in these two case studies shows that, in spite of the intermediations, these two organizations are still able to bring producers and consumers closer together.