The renewal of the French countryside: myth or reality?
Landscape of wheat fields.
Pixabay / Magdalenalena
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
2 min
According to a survey carried out after the first confinement, nearly 20% of French people said they were ready to leave the city for the countryside.
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Already a reality for some since they are 100,000 to take the plunge each year.
Revival of the economy, enhancement of local know-how, a revival seems to be taking place with the arrival of the neorurals.
Yet the digital divide, medical deserts or high unemployment rates still remain a reality for many rural areas.
Does the future really play out in the countryside?
With:
Vincent Grimault
, journalist for the magazine
Alternatives économique
and author of
La renaissance des campaigns
(Seuil)
Benoit Coquard
, sociologist at the
National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRAE)
in Dijon (
Cesaer laboratory
- center of economics and sociology applied to agriculture and rural areas) and author of the book
Those who remain
(La Discovery, 2019)
A report in Crest in the Drôme in France.
Our reporter
Inès Edel Garcia
met Marie and Anne-Sophie from Villages Vivants, a cooperative created in 2018 which buys empty shops, renovates them and rents them at favorable rents, with the aim of setting up projects useful to the territories and strong social impact.
This can be a cooperative bookstore, a country bistro, a third place, an associative grocery store, a bicycle repair shop.
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