The aim of this policy brief is to further sharpen understanding about food environments and what a ‘food environment approach’ entails for EU food policy and the transition to sustainable food systems.
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Food environments and EU Food Policy
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Sustainable diets. How ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system
27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYHow can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends ? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.
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Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients
3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYThe guidelines are written from nutrition and public health perspective, to provide practical guidance on how food fortification should be implemented, monitored and evaluated. They are primarily intended for nutrition-related public health programme managers, but should also be useful to all those working to control micronutrient malnutrition, including the food industry.
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Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems : Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm
27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYPuts forward a new concept to analyse the man-nature relationship. Offers governance solutions to face the ecological emergency. Provides a unique view on environmental change using inter- and transdisciplinary approaches.
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21/ Child undernutrition in Guatemala: aggravating factors and levers
29 September 2022, by Mathilde COUDRAY– Juliana Yael Milovich, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, United Kingdom Elena Villar, Department of Economics and Finance, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Key points The aggressive expansion of African palm farming in Guatemala is exacerbating chronic child undernutrition by jeopardizing families’ access to sufficient food. Nutritional health programmes that operate at local level and involve all community members are particularly effective in reducing child (...) -
19/ Hidden costs and the fair price of our food: between the market, the State and the commons
15 September 2022, by Mathilde COUDRAYJean-Louis Rastoin, L’Institut Agro Montpellier, France
Key points The market price of food products reflects only a limited share (between a third and half) of their true cost if we take into account the negative externalities associated with their production, distribution and consumption. These harmful impacts pertain to human health (50% of hidden costs on average), the environment (30%), and the economy (20%). These figures vary due to the territorial diversity of food systems. (...) -
Understanding Lived Experience of Food Environments to Inform Policy : An Overview of Research Methods
10 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYWith poor diets being the leading cause of ill-health in the world today, the imperative to explore how to leverage food systems for better diets has never been greater. Significant attention has been placed on how to improve one particular component of the food system : food environments. Food environments comprise the foods available to people in their surroundings as they go about their everyday lives and the nutritional quality, safety, price, convenience, labelling and promotion of these foods (FAO, 2016).
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Improving lifestyles sustainability through community gardening : results and lessons learnt from the JArDinS quasi-experimental study.
10 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYDespite an increasing number of studies highlighting the health benefits of community gardening, the literature is limited by cross-sectional designs. The “JArDinS” quasi-experimental study aimed to assess the impact of community garden participation on the adoption of more sustainable lifestyles among French adults.
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A safe and just space for humanity : can we live within the doughnut ?
23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYHumanity’s challenge in the 21st century is to eradicate poverty and achieve prosperity for all within the means of the planet’s limited natural resources. In the run-up to Rio+20, this discussion paper presents a visual framework – shaped like a doughnut – which brings planetary boundaries together with social boundaries, creating a safe and just space between the two, in which humanity can thrive. Moving into this space demands far greater equity – within and between countries – in the use of natural resources, and far greater efficiency in transforming those resources to meet human needs.
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Hungry city. How food shapes our lives
26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAYHow do you feed a city ? It’s a question that we rarely ask, but which lies at the core of civilisation. The feeding of cities arguably has a greater social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything else we do. Yet few of us living in modern cities are conscious of the process. Food arrives on our plates as if by magic, and we rarely stop to wonder how it might have got there.