ABSTRACT
Based on field study in southern France, this chapter examines two types of local development induced by two different food production strategies. We consider that each strategy potentially contributes to the development of its own space of meanings as well as specific social and cultural practices, together constituting the localised social food space. This hypothesis allows us to analyse the diversity of social meanings associated with local productions and the local development that each strategy induces, corresponding to the development of a differentiated localised social food space.
