{"id":1454,"date":"2013-04-26T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:19:22","slug":"marche-sur-leau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"March\u00e9 sur l&#8217;eau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 24, 2013<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contributors: \u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Jegou (LE) and\u00a0Serena Nardin<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Workshop: <\/em><em>Resource efficiency \u2013 CO2 reduction \/ Food hub\/logistic platform<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reinvent Mainstream Logistic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/04\/bind-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/04\/bind-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/04\/bind.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/04\/Schermata-04-2456401-alle-11.42.55-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/04\/Schermata-04-2456401-alle-11.42.55-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/files\/2013\/04\/Schermata-04-2456401-alle-11.42.55.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The population growth and further urbanization will have a significant effect on\u00a0<strong>the need for the delivery of goods<\/strong>, especially in urban areas, causing environmental impact, traffic congestion and problems in reaching consumers (last mile logistic).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting solutions currently in experimentation have been developed using the rivers and canals, which might replace the use of several trucks with a lower carbon intensive mix of t<strong>ransport means.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>March\u00e9 sur l&#8217;eau<\/em><\/strong> selected farms in the periurban area outside Paris and close to the canals in order to carry by boat fruits and vegetables and deliver them to the market in the center of the city, reaching directly the consumers. Furthermore, the boat collects organic waste and brings it to a biogas digester in the countryside, close to the river<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Environmental benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decreasing the usage of transport means from the countryside to the city<\/li>\n<li>Fostering the recycle of organic waste<\/li>\n<li>Driving people to consume fresh and local food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Economical benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting the periurban\u2019s growers and producers<\/li>\n<li>Respecting both prices of the farmer&#8217;s work and the consumer purchasing power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating long last relationships between local farmers and costumers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Pro e contra:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Rivers and canals must be suitable for navigation, so they might need maintenance,<\/li>\n<li>Little flexibility of sales points (limited to a few selling locations near the canal)<\/li>\n<li>Little flexibility of products\u2019 offers<\/li>\n<li>Struggle with controlling the demand and offer (uncertainty of production, season, expiration of food, etc.)<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>This system of overcoming the sustainability obstacles is applicable only when waterways are available within the city. This model cannot be replicated in every city but it exemplifies potentialities to <strong>reinvent the current mainstream logistic systems reusing part of still existing past infrastructures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How could we offer a rich variety of fresh and local products all year long and with a low environmental impact in terms of food transportation?<\/p>\n<p>What other kinds of existing infrastructures could be used or adapted as new transportation ways?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March\u00e9 sur l&#8217;eau selected farms in the periurban area outside Paris and close to the canals in order to carry by boat fruits and vegetables and deliver them to the market in the center of the city, reaching directly the consumers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[38,59,58],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delivering","tag-local-food","tag-paris","tag-sustainable-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/urbact-sustainable-food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}