Regain #1
Regain #2
Adie Regain
In order to boost entrepreneurship in rural areas, Fondation Avril has been supporting ADIE (Association pour le Droit à l’Initiative Economique) since 2015 as part of a study aimed at defining new working methods adapted to the constraints of isolation in rural areas.
The study gave rise to a three-year experiment, Regain 1, to adapt micro-credit to the specificities of the rural world and thus facilitate the creation of businesses by people with no access to bank credit. 600 micro-credits were granted over two rural areas located in the north (Indre, Cher, Allier) and south of France (Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Lozère, Aveyron).
Regain 1 was completed in 2018. Succession is now ensured by Regain 2, located in three new pilot territories (1. Ariège ; 2. Allier, Saône et Loire, Nièvre ; 3. Hautes Alpes, Alpes de Haute Provence). This second component should make it possible to integrate, in three years, a minimum of 320 people through the creation of their own company or access to paid employment.
Regain 2 was set up thanks to a particularly innovative means of financing : the « Contrat à Impact Social » (Social Impact Contract). All the investors (Caisse de Dépôts, BNP Paris, Renault Mobile Invest and AG2R La Mondiale) will be reimbursed by public authorities when the objectives are met.
“I have a job that allows me to bring my ecological convinctions to life while calling upon crossed skills: agricultural technique, commercial but also discipline, creativity, the ability to constantly apply self-analysis.”
Chanelle got into organic farming, she received a microcredit from the ADIE (association for the right to economic initiative)
OUR PARTNER
OTHER PROJECTS:
Fermes d’Avenir
Created at the end of 2013, the Fermes d’Avenir association, has the mission to develop agroecology. Through the creation of farms, its trainings, its competitions, its publications, its participative financing platform or the events it organizes, the association has woven links with about 500 farms engaged in an agroecological approach throughout France.
Agr’eau
In 2012, the French Agroforestry Association (AFAF) launched the Agr’eau programme to implement agro-ecology and protect water resources. Agr’eau is applied on the scale of large river basins. The historical pilot region is the Adour-Garonne basin supported in particular by the Water Agency. Agr’eau is a network of farmers, advisers, researchers and private and public stakeholders.
Numagri
Conducted by a consortium of key players in the agricultural sector, initially led by Fondation Avril, the project initiated by NumAgri aims to promote value creation for French farmers by facilitating data exchanges between actors in the agricultural sector, from the farm to the consumer.
Call for Proposals – Territories with Positive Agriculture
In 2019, Fondation Avril and French government launched the call for projects « Massif central, Territories with Positive Agriculture » in order to initiate the emergence of local multi-actor projects in Massif Central (highland region, in the middle of Southern France), combining development that creates sustainable values onto territories and agricultural transitions.