The Prime Minister specified that this sum will go “both to the major national networks” of food aid, and “to local projects, through the regional prefects”.
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Elisabeth Borne announced on Thursday 3 November a “sustainable food aid fund” of 60 million euros in 2023, intended to allow the French “the most fragile” to access “quality food”, during a visit to the Food Bank of the Marne, in Reims. The prime minister was accompanied for this trip by the Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe and the Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life, Marlène Schiappa.
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“It is 60 million euros that we will mobilize in 2023 to both support our major national players, so that they can buy more quality products, fresh products”declared the Prime Minister to the press at the end of her visit. “We also want to support initiatives like the one we saw this morning in the territories, for example quality products on the short circuit for our food banks and the associations which are mobilized on this food aid”she explained.
These 60 million euros will go, explained Elisabeth Borne, “both to the major national networks that offer food aid, in calls for projects that we are going to launch” but also “to local projects, through the regional prefects”.
These latter “will be able to support initiatives (…) between farmers, producers who will also be able to offer short circuits for quality food. For example, also to set up sustainable food checks since it is something that we want to be able to then develop on a national scale”continued the head of government. “We are working on a food voucher, which is a very complicated subject. We wanted to start with this food aid scheme reinforcing the quality of the products offered”she clarified.