Description

The local food supply chain or the reduction of distributor’s intermediaries

The local systems are mainly related to farming products. The goal is to reduce intermediaries (maximum one) between producer and consumer. By reducing the intermediaries, we reduce the costing of the products.

This gives lots of benefits:

• For the consumers: to have access to products of good quality at a good price level, because we avoid additional distributors’ margins.
• For the farmers: To increase their own margins, and so to hire some local manpower and to give priority to local quality products, even organic.
• To enhance local heritage through the consumption of local products.
• To reduce the impact of the food supply chain on the environment, by reducing greenhouse gas emission. Indeed, local consumption reduces the share of imported products.

In 2010, according to l’ADEME (Environment agency and energy control), the local food supply chain were representing 6 to 7% of the food bought. This proportion is increasing because the way of consumption find itself back to a healthier food (organic, seasonal products, …), which is getting more and more popular around the consumers and which became one of the priority of french gouvernements, especially after the Grenelle de l’Environnement (Big round table to improve France’s impacts on the environment).

Regarding the restaurant industry, more and more chefs favour this kind of provision in order to cook some tasty and quality meals.

So give priority to local food supply chain, and if you save just a bit in term of money, you will increase a lot in terms of quality of your meals and satisfaction of your clients!

Now you just need to find the time to go buy those products. If you use to go to one place, as a specialized supermarket for instance, the alternative is to find a cooperative shop nearby your place, or even more ambitious, to build your own supply chain with some neighbours and local producers.

To find out some producers in your region, go to local markets or on the great smartphone app  baladovore, where the chefs register their own producers all over France. Finally, if you look for “local farmer” or “direct selling” in your favorite search engine, you will find lots of links allowing to reach tasty local products …

NB : To go even further, if you have the time and the possibility, think about not to buy your products only to one farmer, butcher. Take the time to choose the best of each producer. Then you will contribute to the local development of many different producers and not just only one…

Translated from French by : Louis Courtaigne.

Seen at

Name		Type of facility	Environment	Country	Swap?
	Chez Delphy - bed and breakfast - Accra	Hotels & guest houses	urbain, zone-chaude	Ghana	Yes
	Escape 3 Points - Paradise in Ghana	Hotels & guest houses	rural, mer, zone-chaude	Ghana	Yes
	Escape 3 Points - Paradise in Ghana	Hôtels et chambres d'hôtes	rural, mer, zone-chaude	Ghana	Yes
	Escape 3 Points - Paraíso en Ghana	Hoteles y habitaciones	rural, mer, zone-chaude	Ghana	Yes
	Sobo Bade	Activities, Hotels & guest houses, Restaurants & Co	rural, mer, zone-chaude	Senegal	Yes
	Sobo Bade	Actividades, Hoteles y habitaciones, Restaurantes & co	rural, mer, zone-chaude	Senegal	Yes
	La Source Aux Lamantins	Hotels & guest houses, Restaurants & Co	rural, mer, zone-chaude	Senegal	Yes
	Les Méans	Hotels & guest houses	rural, montagne	France	Yes
	Domaine de la Rhonie	Hotels & guest houses, Restaurants & Co	rural, zone-temperee	France	No
	Yegua Loca Hotel	Hotels & guest houses	urbain, zone-temperee	Chile	Yes
	Wasipunko Ecolodge	Hotels & guest houses	rural, zone-chaude	Peru	Yes
	Yachana Lodge	Community based tourism, Hotels & guest houses	rural, zone-chaude	Ecuador	Yes
	Black Sheep Inn Ecolodge	Hostels, Hotels & guest houses	rural, montagne, zone-temperee	Ecuador	Yes
	La Cense Lignère	Hotels & guest houses, Unusual lodgings	rural, zone-temperee	France	No
	Cabanes des Grands Lacs	Unusual lodgings	rural	France	Yes
	Le Mas de l'Oulivié	Hotels & guest houses	rural, mer	France	No
	Le Moulin de La Jarousse	Unusual lodgings	rural, zone-temperee	France	No
	L'écolodge des Chartrons	Hotels & guest houses	urbain	France	Yes
	Castel Camping Le Brevedent	Campings	rural, mer	France	No

Learn more

• According to your area, we often find some local producers on the market or thanks to organisations such as La Ruche qui dit Oui (in France), AMAP (in France), …
• Mon-producteur.com (in France)
• The application made by french Chefs : baladovore