Security : another definition 

While the term "security" has been considerably narrowed in the light of recent events, it's important to remember that, in developmental psychology and ethology, the feeling of security is fundamental for all living beings. Indeed, it is through maternal care, benevolence and the guarantee of a full plate and a glass of clean water that the notion of individual security is established, enabling the security of all nations.

Security begins as an individual mental state, then develops into an objective situation characterized by the absence of danger, where the state plays a regulatory role in the preservation of property and people. More recently, security has come to mean flow control, with concepts such as traceability, precaution and regulation (Gros, 2012).

What would happen if global food supply chains were suddenly and permanently interrupted? Would it be possible to feel and be safe? (Linou, 2018).

"When the term food insecurity is mentioned, the images that most often spring to mind are those of starving populations in developing countries or the hunger riots of Spring 2008. Yet in the richest countries, tens of millions of people are also food insecure" (Birlouez 2009). Several studies have shown the link between food shortages and an increase in violence and public disorders. Our industrialized countries, notably France, have no plan B in the event of food shortages, or even a food continuity plan to ensure civil security outside the ORSEC plan (short-term).

The case of Greenland, and more specifically the city of Nuuk, is undergoing a profound food transition in line with the aspiration to sustainable, local, economically accessible and healthy food (Rastoin, 2018). In France, the Projets Alimentaire Territorial (P.A.T), the SCoT (Schéma de Cohérence Territoriaux) and the P.C.S (Plan Communaux de Sauvegarde) are tools for designing and implementing communal and inercommunale strategic planning that can serve a Projet d'Aménagement Stratégique (P.A.S).

But how can food production be relocated without healthy soil ?

As soil is essential to human activity, it needs to be legally reconsidered in a new light. Reflecting a society dependent on supply flows, the food transition must include soil as a legal entity to be protected rather than an inert surface to be developed. According to Fournil et al. (2018), soil requalification logics must consider two components, one preserving the soil from degradation and the other aiming to secure the functions and services rendered by the soil. 

The reterritorialization of agriculture (producers) and the relocalization of all stakeholders  in a territory (processors, distributors and consumers) begins with the remediation and regeneration of the soil ecosystem. As the very foundation of our civilization, soil could therefore be seen as the first pillar enabling the advent of transitions (food, agricultural, economic, social).