Un des défis majeurs à venir sera de parvenir à nourrir durablement les urbains, car dans le même temps, la communauté scientifique s’accorde pour pronostiquer un avenir fait de risques de pénuries de ressources naturelles non renouvelables, liés notamment à l’urbanisation galopante.
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Réinvestir les quais parisiens pour transporter les denrées alimentaire
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Feeding the city : work and food culture of the Mumbai dabbawalas
26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYEvery day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai’s hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world : only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai’s dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" – a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating – Roncaglia’s study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level.
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Président de session
4 janvier 2018, par RoxaneUn des défis majeurs à venir sera de parvenir à nourrir durablement les urbains, car dans le même temps, la communauté scientifique s’accorde pour pronostiquer un avenir fait de risques de pénuries de ressources naturelles non renouvelables, liés notamment à l’urbanisation galopante.
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Food aid after fifty years : recasting its role
3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThis book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter. This book will prove vital to students of development economics and development studies and those working in the field.
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The new nutrition science project
27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYTo show that nutrition science, with its application to food and nutrition policy, now needs a new conceptual framework. This will incorporate nutrition in its current definition as principally a biological science, now including nutritional aspects of genomics. It will also create new governing and guiding principles ; specify a new definition ; and add social and environmental dimensions and domains.
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Avoiding the local trap : scale and food systems in planning research
3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYA strong current of food-systems research holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales. Many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially just. We term this the local trap and argue strongly against it. We draw on current scale theory in political and economic geography to argue that local food systems are no more likely to be sustainable or just than systems at other scales. The theory argues that scale is socially produced : scales (and their interrelations) are not independent entities with inherent qualities but strategies pursued by social actors with a particular agenda. It is the content of that agenda, not the scales themselves, that produces outcomes such as sustainability or justice. As planners move increasingly into food-systems research, we argue it is critical to avoid the local trap. The article’s theoretical approach to scale offers one way to do so.
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Agricultures singulières
26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYQue ce soit dans les déserts ou les marécages, sur les terres d’altitude ou au milieu des océans, l’homme a de tout temps su faire preuve de sa capacité à adapter ses pratiques agricoles aux terres les plus inhospitalières. En marge des grandes évolutions de l’agriculture, il a en effet su développer des conduites culturales originales qui sont autant de réponses à la sévérité des contraintes physiques et aux aléas de l’histoire. Stratégies simples de survie, solutions techniques parfois complexes, les agricultures de l’extrême présentées dans cet ouvrage étonnent par leur diversité et leur créativité. Elles s’inscrivent dans des contextes sociaux et culturels contrastés, tout en se faisant étrangement écho d’un continent à l’autre.
Rédigé dans un style accessible à tous, abondamment illustré, cet ouvrage à plusieurs mains donne à découvrir la surprenante palette des « agricultures singulières » qui, au-delà de l’héritage exceptionnel qu’elles représentent, témoignent de l’infinie variété des formes d’agriculture développées dans le monde. -
Concepts de métabolisme urbain et d’empreinte alimentaire
4 janvier 2018, par RoxaneUn des défis majeurs à venir sera de parvenir à nourrir durablement les urbains, car dans le même temps, la communauté scientifique s’accorde pour pronostiquer un avenir fait de risques de pénuries de ressources naturelles non renouvelables, liés notamment à l’urbanisation galopante.
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L’exode rural et les migrations contre l’emploi rural ?
4 janvier 2018, par RoxaneUn des défis majeurs à venir sera de parvenir à nourrir durablement les urbains, car dans le même temps, la communauté scientifique s’accorde pour pronostiquer un avenir fait de risques de pénuries de ressources naturelles non renouvelables, liés notamment à l’urbanisation galopante.
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The place of food : mapping out the ‘local’ in local food systems
3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY‘Local food systems’ movements, practices, and writings pose increasingly visible structures of resistance and counter-pressure to conventional globalizing food systems. The place of food seems to be the quiet centre of the discourses emerging with these movements. The purpose of this paper is to identify issues of ‘place’, which are variously described as the ‘local’and ‘community’ in the local food systems literature, and to do so in conjunction with the geographic discussion focused on questions and meanings around these spatial concepts. I see raising the profile of questions, complexity and potential of these concepts as an important role and challenge for the scholar-advocate in the realm of local food systems, and for geographers sorting through them. Both literatures benefit from such a foray. The paper concludes, following a ‘cautiously normative’ tone, that there is strong argument for emplacing our food systems, while simultaneously calling for careful circumspection and greater clarity regarding how we delineate and understand the ‘local’. Being conscious of the constructed nature of the ‘local’, ‘community’ and ‘place’ means seeing the importance of local social, cultural and ecological particularity in our everyday worlds, while also recognizing that we are reflexively and dialectially tied to many and diverse locals around the world.
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