Farmland protection on urban fringes around the Mediterranean: social and spatial justice and innovation in land management – JASMINN

Objectives

The JASMINN project is being undertaken by a team of four young researchers with expertise in geography, sociology and law, with the support of an interdisciplinary and international monitoring committee.

The JASMINN project is attempting to contribute to a better understanding of the conditions under which suburban farmland is best preserved with the aim of sustainable development.

The central hypothesis is that the current lack of effectiveness in the protection of suburban farmlan is partly due to a lack of consideration of the social consequences of land policies. To test this hypothesis, the project proposes to construct a reading grid of land systems based on the concept of social and spatial justice, and to test it in three Mediterranean areas (France, Algeria, Italy). The protection of suburban farmland will be analyzed from four complementary fields of action: public interventions on agricultural land that is still not built upon; management of agricultural buildings; private initiatives concerning agricultural land; and collective monitoring, regulation and consultation examples. The purpose of the comparison is to identify factors that induce blocks and the levers of innovation favouring sustainable management of suburban agricultural land.