Perrine Vandenbroucke

Teacher-researcher

Expertise

French and European agricultural economics and policy, entrepreneurial renewal in agriculture
Agricultural and food transitions in urban, rural, and peri-urban areas: agroecology, food insecurity, gardens/orchards

Research unit

Laboratory for Rural Studies

Keywords

Agricultural operations, gardening, agricultural policy, agroecological transition, rural, urban, peri-urban, governance

Research projects

PLEIADES, “Renewing entrepreneurial dynamics in the agricultural sector,” 2022-2024, TERRA ISARA Endowment Fund
Project coordination
AE4EU, Agroecology For Europe, 2021-2026, Horizon 2020, European Union
Task leader: Development of agroecology-territories as LLs for large-scale transition processes (WP2)
JARDIN’R, “Gardening revival in rural areas: a melting pot and indicator of food, social, economic, and environmental transitions,” Fondation de France/Ecole Urbaine de Lyon, 2021–…
Project co-coordination with Claire Delfosse
JASSUR, Urban Community Gardens and Sustainable Cities, practices, functions, and risks; funded by the French National Research Agency as part of the ANR-12 VBDU project (2013-15). Coordination of Task 2: “Governance of community gardens”
TERRAE, Agroecology Territories, project funded by the Fondation de France and the TERRA ISARA endowment fund (2013-2018). Winner of the Fondation de France’s 2017 National Laurels.
Project coordination

Theses

Co-supervision of thesis Quentin Ellès, Domestic agroforestry in temperate climates: a socio-ecological paradigm shift, PhD thesis project in geography, supervised by C. Delfosse and J-N Consalès, Rural Studies Laboratory, 2023-26
Co-supervision of thesis Emilie Perronne, Promoting fruit heritage as a resource for regional transition, PhD thesis in geography, supervised by C. Delfosse & A. Wezel, Ecole Urbaine de Lyon, 2021-2024
Co-supervision of thesis by Mathilde Ferrand, Access to food in rural areas: the case of people living in poverty in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, PhD thesis project in geography, Supervisor: C. Delfosse, CIFRE Sol&Civilisation/Cap rural, 2020-2023

Teaching activities

Coordination of the specialization program Territories, Ecological, Food, and Energy Transitions (Bac +4, Bac +5),
Educational responsibility for the SITER area of specialization – Strategy, Innovation, Governance of Sectors and Territories (Bac +5).
Agricultural economics and policy
Tutored projects in collaboration with regional partners

Professional experience and education

2011-… : Lecturer and researcher at ISARA.
2007-2013 : PhD in Geography, Planning, and Urban Development, thesis defended on January 21, 2013
“Transformation of agricultural production units from sectoral to territorial farming. Farms, farmers, and territories in the Monts du Lyonnais and inland Flanders from 1970 to 2010,” thesis supervised by Jean PLUVINAGE, 607 p. Rural Studies Laboratory, University of Lyon 2.
2007 : Master’s degree in Geography Research, “Globalization and comparative rural dynamics.”
“Dynamics and sustainability of farms in the peri-urban area of Budapest,” supervised by Gilles BAZIN, with support from Istvàn FEHÉR (Szent Istvàn University, ödöllö) – Paris X University-AgroParisTech
2003-2007 : Agricultural Engineering Degree, AgroParisTech/INA P-G

Latest publications

2025

Clara Lina Bader, Nina Isabella Moeller, Baptiste Grard, Alexander Wezel, Samuel Féret, and al.. Philanthropic Funding for Agroecology in Europe – Opening the (black) box of sustainable food system actors. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2025, pp.1 – 30.

2024

Claire Delfosse, Perrine Vandenbroucke. Tell me why you garden… and I’ll tell you who you are. An extensive field study on the gardening revival. Revue l’Alpe, 2024, 104.

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2022

Noé Guiraud, Claire Delfosse, Perrine Vandenbroucke, Philomène Viricel, Laura Munar. Gardens in rural areas of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes mid-mountain region: indicators of a changing relationship with food. Revue de Géographie Alpine / Journal of Alpine Research, 2022, 110 (2),

2021

Perrine Vandenbroucke. Training agricultural engineers to support territorial dynamics. The trajectory of a specialization in “territorial development” at ISARA. For. The Ruralities, Education and Policies Group journal, 2021, 240-241 (2021/2-3), pp.367-377.

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),

2019

Perrine Vandenbroucke, Claire Delfosse. Food transitions in rural areas: practices and representations of inhabitants. Bulletin of the Association of French Geographers, 2019, 96 (No. 4), pp. 585-600.

2024

Laure Courret, Hélène Brives, Perrine Vandenbroucke, Claire Delfosse. Making a place for oneself in dairy farming: a study of twenty career paths in the Rhône and Loire regions. SFER Conference, SFER – ESA, June 2024, Angers (France), France.

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Claire Delfosse, Perrine Vandenbroucke. Gardens: caution, slippery floors. International Geography Festival, October 2024, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France.

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Ioanna Mouratiadou, Laura Solaroli, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, Perrine Vandenbroucke, Vincent Payet, et al. Where alternative food networks and agroecology meet: exploring synergies for food system transformation. 187th EAAE Seminar “Food System Transformation – Role of Research,” European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), June 2024, Frick, Switzerland.

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2023

Perrine Vandenbroucke, Baptiste Grard, William Buckner, Jens Dauber, Alexander Wezel. Pathways and schemes for Agroecology Territories across Europe. XXIXth European Society for Rural Sociology Congress Crises and the futures of rural areas, Jul 2023, Rennes, France.

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