The renewal of the French countryside: myth or reality?
Audio 48:30
Landscape of wheat fields.
Pixabay / Magdalenalena
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
51 mins
According to a poll carried out after the first confinement, nearly 20% of French people said they were ready to leave the city for the countryside.
Publicity
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.
However, 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)
Benoît Coquard
, sociologist at the
National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRAE)
in Dijon (
Cesaer Laboratory
- Center for economics and sociology applied to agriculture and rural areas), and author of the book
Those Who Stay
( The 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 to strong social impact.
This can be a cooperative bookstore, a country bistro, a third place, an associative grocery store, a bicycle repair shop.
See this post on Instagram
A publication shared by 7milliardsRFI (@ 7milliardsrfi)
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Society
France
On the same subject
Great report
French campaigns: restocking objective
Great report
French campaigns: beware of the desert!
France
End of telephone booths in France: the countryside is resisting