Valérie is coordinator of the “Our Campaigns in Resilience” project. After working in Popular Education associations, Valérie worked for ten years in the local development sector, particularly in Beaufortain. Graduated with a Master 2 in Political Science on social change and territorial solidarity, she completed her research thesis on the influence of the emotions of professionals in the implementation of territorial political changes. Her professional dissertation focused on the theme of networks of rural development agents in Savoie. Valérie is attached to the rural environment of which she is a native. His social and field approach will allow him to take another look at current socio-agro-ecological transitions. His animation experiences will allow him to offer participatory tools and methods so that everyone can be an actor in this project. Curious, committed, full of will and good humor, she wants to meet this rural world, discover what makes them strong and thus contribute her little grain of salt to build a more resilient future for rural Europe.
France | Growing Vegetables, Seeding Values – Part 2
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
People need to be educated to get involved: that they are supporting small systems that are not mechanised, that are not economically fragile. There’s nothing quaint about coming to help out on the farm.
Growing Vegetables, Seeding Values – Part 1
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
Our legal status [as a GAEC or farm cooperative] allows us to do a lot of things: from growing vegetables to hosting classes, tourists, cultural events, catering… It encouraged us to open the field of possibilities. You can do things but at the same time stay true to yourself and the life you want.
Farming by Numbers part 2
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
For Stéphane and his associates on their six-hectare horticulture farm, GAEC Le Jardin des Pierres Bleues, every choice is calculated to yield the best outcomes for people and planet.
Farming by Numbers part 1
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
Stéphane loves numbers, and it’s a formula for the success of the six-hectare horticulture farm, GAEC Le Jardin des Pierres Bleues, that he runs together with three associates and one employee in Vay, north-west France.
Cooking Up Fairer Food & Farming Part 2
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
What we don’t know how to do is give collective organisations the means to emerge and not just follow the political funding. We must have the capacity to make time to think out the structure collectively without losing the political thinking.
Cooking Up Fairer Food & Farming Part 1
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
When a vegetable grower tells me he wants the cook to know what it is to pull cabbages in February in the rain – we have to find a way to communicate that.
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 2
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
These paradigm shifts are not always easy. It’s hard work to debunk stereotypes. But the Marion and Benjamin’s determination show us that it can be done.
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1
By Valérie Geslin, ARC2020
Marion and Benjamin welcome us in the farm yard with a big smile. Their farm, “Le Buis Sonnant” in Brittany, is a place that quietly questions the current state of farming and how it’s changing. Buying land, succession, sharing of responsibilities… discussion around the hot topics is even-handed and open-minded.