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• Realizing justice in local food systems
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  For alternative agrifood social movements, food-system localization is both an ideal and a pathway to resolve environmental, social and economic issues in the food system. This article addresses the potential for equity within food-system localization in practical and conceptual terms. Historical processes have shaped regions and social relations with vast differences in wealth, power and privilege and this has implications for thinking about and enacting equity through food-system localization. If food-system localization efforts are to work toward equity, they must consider inherited material and discursive asymmetries within frameworks of economy, demography, geography and democracy.

• « La nourriture de la marmite ». Alimentation et socialisation de l’enfant dans deux villes camerounaises
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Chapitre 11 de l’ouvrage Manger en ville  : Regards socio-anthropologiques d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie (Soula et al., 2020)
  Ce chapitre vise à montrer que l’alimentation de l’enfant de 0 à 1 an dans les villes de Yaoundé et de Douala au Cameroun est un enjeu d’humanisation et de socialisation. De juin 2013 à mars 2014, une recherche qualitative a été réalisée sur la base d’un échantillonnage de type non probabiliste par choix raisonné dans ces deux villes cosmopolites. Les ménages rencontrés ont été choisis à partir de critères socio-économiques, niveau de vie haut, moyen et modeste, ainsi que sur la base de leur diversité ethnique. Les pratiques d’alimentation visent à intégrer l’enfant à son groupe social. Un artefact symbolise cette socialisation de l’enfant : « la nourriture de la marmite ».

• Circuits courts alimentaires, dynamiques relationnelles et lutte contre l’exclusion en agriculture
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Les circuits courts alimentaires, sujet d’actualité, sont parfois idéalisés alors que leur capacité à réduire les inégalités reste à approfondir. À partir des apports de la sociologie économique, l’article cherche à montrer en quoi et comment ces circuits, en tant que marchés valorisant les liens sociaux, peuvent permettre d’intégrer des positions sociales marginalisées en agriculture, identifiées à partir d’un travail préalable de bibliographie et d’enquêtes. Basée sur une analyse longitudinale des relations sociales et des récits de vie, la recherche fait émerger trois types de dynamiques relationnelles facilitant l’intégration d’exclus. La contribution illustre les circuits courts considérés comme des outils au service d’un développement social durable.

• Limited food availability
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  While food security is a major worldwide issue, it is a much more serious problem in Low-Income
  (LI) and Lower Middle-Income (LMI) countries. Currently, sub-Saharan Africa is the sub-continent with the highest proportion of undernourished people, the largest gap between current and potential yields, and between cereal consumption and production. Looking to the future, population growth and climate change may worsen the situation, particularly in Africa. African countries are still facing rapid population growth with uncertain prospects about the ability of their agriculture to meet growing food demand. In addition, without sufficient adaptation measures, climate change will negatively impact food production in most African regions.

• Beacons of hope : accelerating transformations to sustainable food systems
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This report examines 21 initiatives that are working to achieve sustainable, equitable, and secure food systems.

• Le droit à l’alimentation durable en démocratie
  2 décembre 2020, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Durant 18 mois, les participants du séminaire Démocratie Alimentaire animé par l’UMR 951 Innovation et le CREAM Université de Montpellier, ont travaillé à ce que pourrait être un droit à l’alimentation dite durable.

• Mon assiette, ma planète - Alimentations pour un monde durable
  11 avril 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Découvrez cette exposition en 17 panneaux synthétisant les grands enjeux de notre alimentation. Un projet coordonné par l’IRD en partenariat avec la Chaire.

• Manger en ville
  17 février 2020, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Ce livre expose les changements des habitudes alimentaires dans des villes d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie.

• 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.

• When food systems meet sustainability – Current narratives and implications for actions
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The concept of food system has gained prominence in recent years amongst both scholars and policy-makers. Experts from diverse disciplines and backgrounds have in particular discussed the nature and origin of the “unsustainability” of our modern food systems. These efforts tend, however, to be framed within distinctive disciplinary narratives. In this paper we propose to explore these narratives and to shed light on the explicit -or implicit- epistemological assumptions, mental models, and disciplinary paradigms that underpin those. The analysis indicates that different views and interpretations prevail amongst experts about the nature of the “crisis”, and consequently about the research and priorities needed to “fix” the problem. We then explore how sustainability is included in these different narratives and the link to the question of healthy diets. The analysis reveals that the concept of sustainability, although widely used by all the different communities of practice, remains poorly defined, and applied in different ways and usually based on a relatively narrow interpretation. In so doing we argue that current attempts to equate or subsume healthy diets within sustainability in the context of food system may be misleading and need to be challenged. We stress that trade-offs between different dimensions of food system sustainability are unavoidable and need to be navigated in an explicit manner when developing or implementing sustainable food system initiatives. Building on this overall analysis, a framework structured around several entry points including outcomes, core activities, trade-offs and feedbacks is then proposed, which allows to identify key elements necessary to support the transition toward sustainable food systems.