Carole Chazoule

Lecturer and researcher in socioeconomics
Deputy Director of the Rural Studies Laboratory (INRAE contract unit), joint supervision ISARA-ISEMA, University of Lyon 2

Expertise

  • Innovation and new ways of organizing food systems
  • Food governance and local food projects
  • Food transitions

Research unit

Laboratory for Rural Studies

Keywords

Alternative food systems, Mid-range food systems, Food governance, Sociotechnical networks, Innovations, Transition, Reterritorialization of food, Quality economy.

Ongoing or recently completed projects

  • 2020-2025: ISARA-Métropole de Lyon agreement – supporting the Métropole in developing its regional food project and reterritorializing its sectors
  • 2020-2025: ISARA/AURA Regional Chamber of Agriculture/Agricultural Cooperation/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 agricultural and food transition: Experiment, capitalize, support. https://www.tetrae.fr/les-projets/traact2
  • 2023-2025: ReSysTerr– Resilience of territorial food systems, “Co-existence of food relocation initiatives and building territorial food resilience. The case of initiatives to structure market gardening supply in the metropolitan areas of Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon.”

Teaching activities

  • Program Unit Manager: Quality and CSR in Sustainable
  • Food Systems (4th year) Food, Health, and Sociology Module Manager (4th year)
  • Manager of the “Sustainable Food Systems and Transition” Option, DA (Area of Specialization) TERREA (Territory, Ecology, Food)

Professional experience and education

  • Since 2024:
  • Deputy Director of USC (Inrae Contract Unit) LER
  • Since 2023:
  • Deputy Director of the Rural Studies Laboratory
  • Since 2021:
  • Member of the SUEZ Terres d’Initiatives Solidaires Foundation
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Légumerie Rhône Saône Légumes
  • Since 2020:
  • Member of the GOOD Technical Committee for the promotion and development of conferences on sustainable food: https://www.good-levenement.fr/
  • Since September 2019:
  • Scientific responsibility for the ISARA/LER team (8 teacher-researchers)
  • Since 2005:
  • Associate member of CREATE (Center for Research in Agri-Food Economics, Transport, and Environment), Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, since 2005 (https://www.create.ulaval.ca/chercheurs)
  • Since September 2003:
  • Lecturer-researcher, School of Engineering, Isara, Lyon.
  • Member of the Rural Studies Laboratory (Society and Rural Areas in Contemporary Europe), Host Team 3728. (https://www.msh-lse.fr/laboratoires/ler)
  • January 2003 to September 2003:
  • Postdoctoral researcher at INRA Avignon, SAD Department.
  • January 2001-January 2003
  • Postdoctoral researcher at CREA (Centre de Recherche en Economie Agroalimentaire), Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

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