Avant 2014

Articles

• Food aid after fifty years : recasting its role
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This 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.

• Alimentation durable : un bien partagé ?
  27 janvier 2012, par Clarisse

  Le diagnostic de la situation alimentaire mondiale est très préoccupant : la FAO estime que deux milliards d’individus souffrent de la faim ou de carences alimentaires sévères et, selon les statistiques de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé, environ un milliard de personnes seraient atteintes d’obésité.
  Cette situation est aggravée par l’augmentation des prix des denrées alimentaires et par de nouvelles contraintes posées aux systèmes agraires : changements climatiques, spéculation financière, concurrence avec les biocarburants, etc.

• Improving the effectiveness of nutritional information policies : assessment of unconscious pleasure mechanisms involved in food-choice decisions
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The rise in obesity in many countries has led to the emergence of nutritional information policies that aim to change people’s diets. Changing an individual’s diet is an ambitious goal, since numerous factors influence a person’s food-choice decisions, many of which are made unconsciously. These frequently subconscious processes should not be underestimated in food-choice behavior, as they play a major role in food diet composition. In this review, research in cognitive experimental psychology and neuroscience provides the basis for a critical analysis of the role of pleasure in eating behaviors. An assessment of the main characteristics of nutritional policies is provided, followed by recent findings showing that food choices are guided primarily by automatic emotional processes. Neuroimaging and behavioral studies, which provide new insights into the relationships between emotions and food both in lean persons and in persons with eating disorders, are reported as well. Lastly, the argument is presented that future nutritional policies can be more effective if they associate healthy food with eating pleasure.