ABSTRACT
This chapter is organized as follows. The first part consists of a literature review on food markets in France. The second part reveals our findings on the renewal of peri-urban open-air food markets around Montpellier and on their diversity. The third part discusses the impact of these open-air food markets on social justice for producers and consumers. Farmers' markets are recognized as places of community building. Numerous scholars have described direct sales as a means of developing solidarity between farmers and consumers and addressing the growing disconnect between production and consumption of food in urban systems. "Farmers' markets may not provide farmers or their workers living wages, and farmers' markets may be less accessible, for a variety of economic and cultural reasons, to some communities". Food markets are places of economic competition. Struggles in the market place occur mainly between producers and retailers, and also among producers.
