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.

Latest publications

2025

Carole Chazoule, Virginie Baritaux, Christophe Corbiere, Claire Delfosse, Stéphane Fournier, et al. When territories “create SyAM” (Food Systems of the Environment): the case of the Department of Isère. Journal of Regional and Urban Economics, 2025, 2025/3 (253), pp. 529-548.

2024

Carole Chazoule, Ronan Le Velly, Kamar Habli, Mathieu Désolé, Stéphane Fournier, et al.. PSDR4 -In search of Mid Tier Food Systems (MTFS). Innovations Agronomiques, 2024, 86, pp.78-90.

2022

Carole Chazoule, Ronan Le Velly, Mathieu Désolé, Stéphane Fournier, L. Joyet, et al. PSDR4 SYAM – In search of food systems for the environment. Agronomic Innovations, 2022, 86, pp.391-404.

Ronan Le Velly, Mathieu Désolé, Carole Chazoule. How to create intermediated local food system partnerships? Collective performance, collective negotiation, and collective learning. The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2022, 12 (1), pp.35-46.

Jean-Luc Paris, Carole Chazoule, Mathieu Désolé, Nicolas Brulard, Stéphane Fournier, et al.. Définition d’un cadre d’ingénierie basé sur un modèle pour la conception, l’organisation et la gestion des systèmes agroalimentaires locaux. Open Journal of Business and Management, 2022, 10 (02), pp.914-941.

2021

Ronan Le Velly, Carole Chazoule, Mathilde Crosnier, Mathieu Désolé, Stéphane Fournier. How to “do SYAM”? Observation of three territorialized food circuits. Practical Sociologies, 2021, 2021/2 (43), pp.129-137.

Jean-Luc Paris, Carole Chazoule, Mathieu Désolé, Nicolas Brulard, Stéphane Fournier, et al. Definition of a model-based engineering framework for the design and management of local agri-food systems. Industrial Engineering and Production Technology, 2021, 4 (1),

2020

Hélène Brives-Beaume, Claire Heinisch, Mathieu Désolé, Carole Chazoule, Perrine Vandenbroucke. Does the development of local supply chains guarantee greener agricultural practices? Sustainable Development and Territories, 2020, 11 (1),

Stéphane Fournier, Ronan Le Velly, Geoffroy Lafosse, Carole Chazoule, Mathieu Désolé. Public territorial intermediation: a third way between top-down and bottom-up approaches? The case of the Isère agri-food cluster. Geography, Economy, Society, 2020, 22 (3-4), pp.329-346.

Ronan Le Velly, Mathieu Désolé, Carole Chazoule. Regaining control of the market: building innovative intermediary channels for beef. Revue Française de Socio-Economie, 2020, 2020/1 (24), pp.129-147.

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