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• The global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning : estimations based on a systematic review
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Human poisoning by pesticides has long been seen as a severe public health problem. As early as 1990, a task force of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that about one million unintentional pesticide poisonings occur annually, leading to approximately 20,000 deaths. Thirty years on there is no up-to-date picture of global pesticide poisoning despite an increase in global pesticide use. Our aim was to systematically review the prevalence of unintentional, acute pesticide poisoning (UAPP), and to estimate the annual global number of UAPP.
  We carried out a systematic review of the scientific literature published between 2006 and 2018, supplemented by mortality data from WHO. We extracted data from 157 publications and the WHO cause-of-death database, then performed country-wise synopses, and arrived at annual numbers of national UAPP. World-wide UAPP was estimated based on national figures and population data for regions defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

• The new nutrition science project
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  To 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.

• Mieux nourrir la planète : diversifier les cultures pour construire des systèmes alimentaires durables
  15 juin 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Aujourd’hui, d’importantes mutations de l’agriculture mondiale sont nécessaires pour produire suffisamment d’aliments sains pour tous, tout en préservant la qualité des terres, de l’air et de l’eau et en sauvegardant la biodiversité. Mais produire suffisamment et préserver en même temps l’environnement est une équation particulièrement complexe à résoudre. Les pratiques agroécologiques, dont un principe essentiel est l’usage de la biodiversité cultivée, constituent une voie prometteuse pour assurer ces mutations.

• Urban governance for food security : the alternative food system in Belo Horizonte
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  With a population of 2.5 million people, the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a world pioneer in tackling food consumption, distribution and production as components of an integrated urban policy for food security. The paper gives a description of the main programmes and features of this policy arguing that over 15 years the city and its Municipal Secretariat for Food Policy and Supply have built a particular alternative food system. Marked by the comprehensive scope of its programmes ; its urban/rural focus ; the flexibility of the initiatives and, above all, by its commitment to social justice and equitable access to food, Belo Horizonte has developed a distinct mode of governance for food security. The unique ‘alterity’ of this food system is set further apart from those being attempted in Europe and in North America because it is government-driven. The paper discusses its strengths and current challenges.

• Should we go “home” to eat ? : toward a reflexive politics of localism
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  “Coming home to eat” [Nabhan, 2002. Coming Home to Eat : The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. Norton, New York] has become a clarion call among alternative food movement activists. Most food activist discourse makes a strong connection between the localization of food systems and the promotion of environmental sustainability and social justice. Much of the US academic literature on food systems echoes food activist rhetoric about alternative food systems as built on alternative social norms. New ways of thinking, the ethic of care, desire, realization, and vision become the explanatory factors in the creation of alternative food systems. In these norm-based explanations, the “Local” becomes the context in which this type of action works. In the European food system literature about local “value chains” and alternative food networks, localism becomes a way to maintain rural livelihoods. In both the US and European literatures on localism, the global becomes the universal logic of capitalism and the local the point of resistance to this global logic, a place where “embeddedness” can and does happen. Nevertheless, as other literatures outside of food studies show, the local is often a site of inequality and hegemonic domination. However, rather than declaim the “radical particularism” of localism, it is more productive to question an “unreflexive localism” and to forge localist alliances that pay attention to equality and social justice. The paper explores what that kind of localist politics might look like.

• Too big to feed. Exploring the impacts of mega-mergers, consolidation and concentration of power in the agri-food sector
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  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 ?

• Stratégies pour changer d’échelle. Le guide des entreprises de l’économie sociale et solidaire qui veulent maximiser leur impact social
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  À destination des dirigeant-e-s des structures d’utilité sociale et de leurs équipes, mais aussi des acteurs de l’accompagnement et du financement, cette nouvelle édition enrichie et mise à jour du guide « Stratégies pour changer d’échelle » vise à éclairer la notion de changement d’échelle et à en favoriser une compréhension partagée.

• Malaysian Food Barometer (MFB) : a study of the impact of compressed modernisation on food habits
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The 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.

• Devenir sain. Des morales alimentaires aux écologies de soi
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  S’alimenter sainement n’est pas qu’une occasion de répondre à des exigences sanitaires et alimentaires propres à la construction d’un corps sain, c’est aussi une manière de penser le monde et de le pratiquer. Le devenir sain est exercice critique face aux conséquences d’une société réflexive, où l’incertitude devient le maître mot du rapport à la connaissance et aux institutions. Il exprime les exigences d’une société orthorexique et cherche à les transcender.

• Avis du CNA - Nouveaux comportements alimentaires
  11 juillet 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Avis du CNA Juillet 2022 - L’avis a identifié les comportements alimentaires qui se diffusent de manière accrue depuis une dizaine d’années et reflétant des préoccupations fortes quant à l’enjeu de la durabilité des systèmes alimentaires.