France Bleu Isère: Sten Forcioli, you are part of the Amap “pays’ages” of Pontcharra. How are the Amaps doing at the moment?
Sten Forcioli: At the start of the crisis, the Amaps helped the producers a lot since they were able to continue to distribute their products with a particular sanitary context. So the producers were delighted to be able to continue to sell their productions while the increasingly restrictive stores also satisfied the consumers since we were able to continue to eat properly without necessarily picking them up in the stores. And then, for the rise in production costs, we’ll see how it works out. This is the moment when proximity means that we are sure to help each other either between Amapiens or vis-à-vis the producers. Rather positive, this mode of operation in times when globalization finally shows its limits.
You work with about thirty families in the Amap, is it a closed circle or are new families joining?
So we are in continuous opening. At the moment, moreover, there is an operation “Fête des Amap”, the project that we set up this year, we called it solidarity baskets to bring in families who have little means and give them access to essential products.
And these families contact you, how?
In particular via the federation of Amap, Alliance PEC, and then locally, with the municipality which knows of our existence, but also by word of mouth, by our producers.
While you are also part of this Amap federation, Alliance Pec makes the same observation. In the other Amaps, is there a development?
No, rather a stagnation. Overall, today, we still have many more and more ways to eat healthily. And the AMAP is still a constraint for the people who are part of it since they are devoted to producers, we choose our products according to seasonality. So the idea is really to contract at the start of the season so that the producer knows how he will be able to get out of it. Absolutely, right?
And you, are you totally satisfied with Amap’s missions and philosophy?
Ah yes, for philosophy first and then, as far as our family is concerned, it allows children to open up to another mode of consumption. They are not always satisfied with it, but it is part of our way of education.
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