Carole Chazoule – EN

Carole Chazoule
Associate Professor in socio-economics
Deputy Director of the Rural Studies Laboratory (Inrae contract unit), ISARA-ISEMA cotutelle, Université Lyon 2

Expertise

• Innovations and new modes of organization of food systems
• Food governance and territorial food projects
• Food transitions

Research Unit
Studies Rural Laboratory

Keywords

Alternative food systems, Values Based Supply Chains, Food governance, Socio-technical networks, Innovations, Transition, Reterritorialization of food, Quality economy.

Ongoing research projects or lately completed

• 2020-2025 : ISARA- Metropolitan area of Lyon agreement – supporting the Metropolis in the development of its territorial food project and the reterritorialization of its sectors
• 2020-2025 : ISARA/Chambre Régionale d’Agriculture AURA/Coopération Agricole/Cap Rural partnership, “Complementarity of sectors and territories” project.
• 2022-2025 :  ANR GinKo, Geographical Indications as Global Knowledge CommOns (GIngKo). Reassessing current models of regulation and collective action towards more sustainable social-ecological systems.
• 2022-2025 : TETRAE TRAACT, Territories of the agricultural and food transition : Experimenting, capitalizing, accompanying. https://www.tetrae.fr/les-projets/traact2
• 2023-2025 : ReSysTerr- Resilience of territorial food systems, “Co-existence of food relocalization initiatives and construction of territorial food resilience. The case of local initiatives structuring the food market in the Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon”.

Teaching activities

• Head of Program : Quality and CSR in sustainable food systems (4th year)
• Head of module : Sustainable Food Systems and Transition, Specific area of study (DA) TERREA (Territory, Ecology, Food)

Professional experience and studies

•  Since 2024 :
  • Deputy Director of USC (unit under contract with INRAE) LER
• Since 2023 :
  • Deputy Director of the Studies Rural Laboratory
• Since 2021 :
  • Member of the Terres d’Initiatives Solidaires foundation of SUEZ
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of the Légumerie Rhône Saône Légumes
• Since 2020 :
  • Member of the « GOOD » Technical Committee for the dissemination and development of days around sustainable food: https://www.good-levenement.fr/
• Since Septembre 2019 :
  • Scientific responsibility of the ISARA/LER team (8 professors)
• Since 2005 :
  • Associate member of CREATE (Centre de Recherche en Economie Agroalimentaire, Transport et Environnement), Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, since 2005 (https://www.create.ulaval.ca/chercheurs)
• Since Septembre 2003 :
  • Professor-researcher, Engineering School, ISARA, Lyon
  • Member of the Laboratoire d’Etudes Rurales (Société et Espace Ruraux de l’Europe Contemporaine), Équipe d’Accueil 3728 (https://www.msh-lse.fr/laboratoires/ler)
• From January 2003 to September 2003 :
  • Post-doctoral researcher at the INRA of Avignon, SAD Department
• January 2001- January 2003 :
  • Post-Doctoral researcher at CREA (Centre de Recherche en Economie Agroalimentaire), Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
• 2001 :
  • PhD Agroeconomy, 1996-2001, SUPAGRO Montpellier, France