What is corporate concentration, why does it matter for food security, and who are the biggest corporate players in each agrifood sector/"link" in the Industrial Food Chain ?
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Too big to feed. Exploring the impacts of mega-mergers, consolidation and concentration of power in the agri-food sector
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All project results in video
22 March 2022, by Mathilde COUDRAYFind here all project results in video
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Malaysian Food Barometer (MFB) : a study of the impact of compressed modernisation on food habits
3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThe Malaysian society is undergoing rapid modernisation. The
emerging middle class in Malaysia is influencing the lifestyles and traditional food habits of the main three ethnics (i.e. Malays, Chinese, and Indians). This article studied the impact of compressed modernisation on food in a multicultural context. The Malaysian Food Barometer (MFB), published in the year 2014, focuses on the socio-cultural determinants of food habits in Malaysia. -
Transforming food systems with agroecology
27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYAgroecology is a way of redesigning food systems, from the farm to the table, with a goal of achieving ecological, economic, and social sustainability. Through transdisciplinary, participatory, and change-oriented research and action, agroecology links together science, practice, and movements focused on social change. But what are the steps that must be taken to transform food systems toward the ultimate goal of sustainability, and away from the mounting evidence of the negative impacts on the environment and society caused by modern industrial agriculture ?
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CAP vs Farm to Fork : Will we pay billions to destroy, or to support biodiversity, climate, and farmers ?
27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThe EU’s current model of agriculture directs billions in EU taxpayers’ money to fuel climate change, destroy biodiversity, and even undermine farmers’ livelihoods. While the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is approaching a key vote, freedom of information requests show that farmers and agribusiness lobby group Copa-Cogeca, along with pesticides and food industry giants, are doing their best to stop the CAP reform from aligning with the new Farm to Fork strategy of the Green Deal.
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Beacons of hope : accelerating transformations to sustainable food systems
23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThis report examines 21 initiatives that are working to achieve sustainable, equitable, and secure food systems.
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Power at the table : food fights and happy meals
26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYIn family meals the normative and the performative are very far apart—though everyone likes to think of the family table as a place of harmony and solidarity, it is often the scene for the exercise of power and authority, a place where conflict prevails. My interest in this topic was sparked by research on middle-class parents’ struggles with their “picky eater” children. Besides narrating the way the dinner table became battleground with their own children, many parents also recalled their own childhood family meals as painful and difficult. From this very narrow focus on family struggles, I expand the discussion to the larger question of why this topic is relatively ignored in social science, and I question the sources of the normative power of the family “happy meal.” The ideological emphasis on family dinners has displaced social responsibility from public institutions to private lives, and the construction of normative family performances is part of a process that constructs different family types as deviant and delinquent.
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Convergence and divergence in food consumption ? Culture, Class and Place in Malaysian Urbanscape.
22 décembre 2017, par RoxaneAnindita Dasgupta is Associate Professor, and Head of School, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. She is the Book Review Editor for Millennial Asia : An International Journal of Asian Studies.
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The future of food safety. Transforming knowledge into action for people, economies and the environment
26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThis technical summary prepared by FAO and the World Health Organization (WHO) reports on the two international food safety conferences held in Addis Ababa and Geneva in February and April 2019. It recalls the key actions and strategies presented to address current and future challenges to food safety globally and the steps required to strengthen commitment at the highest political level to scale up food safety in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
At a pivotal moment focussing international attention on actions needed to bolster food safety, this publication recalls the priorities discussed so that food safety strategies and approaches can be aligned across sectors and borders, reinforcing efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and supporting the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition.
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The future of food and agriculture. Alternative pathways to 2050
3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThis report explores three different scenarios for the future of food and agriculture, based on alternative trends for key drivers, including income growth and distribution, population growth, technical progress and climate change.