Abstract
This collective book is the product of the work of a Brazilian and French team involved in a bilateral scientific project entitled "Agrifood systems and public policies: theories and methods for analysing national and international experiences", funded by CAPES (Brazil) and COFECUB (France) for the period 2020 to 2023.The aim of the project is to systematise and produce theoretical and methodological approaches for analysing the relationships between food systems and public policies. The focus is on the diversity of family farming and the interactions between urban and rural areas and between territories, with a view to building more sustainable food systems. The book brings together 30 authors and ten chapters divided into two main themes: i. food systems and territorial dynamics: the authors deal with the processes of territorialisation linked to the products of family farming, their qualification process and territorial competition from large-scale crops such as soya; ii. food systems, markets and collective organisation: this section deals with farmers' markets and local markets, public purchases from farmers and inequalities in access to supermarket networks. It examines the role of credit, marketing and consumer cooperatives in structuring local agri-food chains.