Proximité entre ville et agriculture au Nord et au Sud de la Méditerranée

Abstract

Urban farming progressively takes place in various cities, but its agro-economic and socio-spatial logic is radically different from one situation to another. For some cities, it brings food sovereignty (Southern countries) and for others it mainly brings some landscape and environmental fability (Northern countries) without being necessary linked to the social context in which it is set. Tunisia really belongs neither to the Northern countries, nor to the Southern ones, and its urban farming – which has not yet been taken into account in the territorial projects – is now threatened by a growing urban expansion despite its potentialities which would allow itself to maintain its own agro-economic logic. The diversity of the usual channels of distribution allows the country to resist, better than Paris, the urban pressure which tends to hem in the farms. But, what is at stake with the increase in land value prevails today, and the environmental and landscape assets which are represented could be endangered in a relatively short term if it does fit in the urban region’s territory planning projects. That is the basis upon which a project of development of rain waters and wastewaters (VALEAS) launched three years ago, and which has begun to give some interesting results. It is a safe bet to assert that this project will demonstrate that in, Tunisia too, the farming landscapes will find their place in the urban society’s expectations.

Keywords

• agri-urbanism
• urban farming
• city and landscape
• short channel of distribution