2023-09-26 16:37:24
From Monday, one hundred and fifty Bordeaux students will receive a monthly payment of 100 euros in local currency, as part of an experimental social food security project intended to allow universal access to a sustainable food. To benefit from it, the students drawn at random will have to pay a minimum monthly contribution of 10 euros, “according to a suggested contribution scale based on income”, the promoters of the project, which will last until next July, specified on Tuesday.
These contributions will only cover a small part of the budget estimated at 200,000 euros, which is mainly financed by grants (region, department, city, universities), donations from foundations and crowdfunding.
Students will be able to spend the 100 gems received in the stores of the approved network of Gemme, the association carrying this local Gironde currency, which meet specifications promoting local producers with “practices that respect the environment and living things” .
“It’s very important to provide the opportunity to eat healthy, because when you don’t have a lot of money, you don’t necessarily think about eating healthy, you think about eating first and foremost,” he said during a briefing. -press Romain Delpy, one of the students chosen at random, who is starting a thesis in computer science.
Crepaq, a regional association promoting an ecological and inclusive transition, chose to develop the experience on campus, because it perceived “since the end of 2019 the problems of food insecurity among students, even before confinement”, declared its director Dominique Nicolas. More broadly, Social Food Security (SSA) is a response to the limits of emergency food aid, illustrated by the recent cry of alarm from Restos du coeur, he argues.
“We have to find another system. There are various social food security experiments launched in France, it is a complementary route initially, but which can then replace emergency measures”, he believes, hoping for a law establishing the SSA “in a few years”.
Another experiment carried out by the Gironde departmental council and supported by the city of Bordeaux must also be launched next spring. “It does not target the same audiences and the same types of products, so we will have extremely rich feedback on the territory,” declared Jean-Baptiste Thony, municipal councilor responsible for the circular economy and local currency. .
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