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• The future of food safety. Transforming knowledge into action for people, economies and the environment
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This 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.

• Les relations homme-nature dans la transition agroécologique
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Face à la crise environnementale, l’humain cherche des voies pour sortir de l’impasse qu’il s’est lui-même construite. L’agriculture est pleinement concernée par ces enjeux. Ce livre part du principe que la transition vers des pratiques agricoles plus respectueuses de l’environnement ne peut être durable sans prendre en compte les facteurs culturels et les systèmes de valeurs individuels et collectifs des acteurs vers le vivant. En s’adressant à tout public soucieux de questionner ses relations à l’environnement, cet ouvrage ambitionne d’apporter une contribution à une transition agroécologique efficiente. (présentation de l’éditeur)

• La situation mondiale des pêches et de l’aquaculture
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  La situation mondiale des pêches et de l’aquaculture a pour finalité de présenter des informations objectives, fiables et actualisées à un large éventail de lecteurs – décideurs, gestionnaires, scientifiques, parties prenantes et, plus généralement, toute personne s’intéressant au secteur de la pêche et de l’aquaculture.

• Guide méthodologique ImpresS : évaluation ex post des impacts de la recherche agronomique dans les pays du Sud
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Impress (« Impact of Research in the South », en français : « impact de la recherche au Sud ») est une approche scientifique qui mobilise un ensemble d’étapes et d’outils participatifs permettant à un collectif de partenaires de comprendre le chemin d’impact du processus d’innovation dans lesquels elles ont été impliqués (Impress ex post), ou de formuler collectivement une vision partagée et explicitée des chemins d’impact potentiels et plausibles d’une intervention à venir (Impress ex ante)

• Food Systems Dashboard / Food Systems Types
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The food system is all of the people and activities that play a part in growing, transporting, supplying, and, ultimately, eating food. These processes also involve elements that often go unseen, such as food preferences and resource investments.

  Food systems influence diets by determining what kinds of foods are produced. They also influence what foods people want to eat and are able to access.

  The different parts of the food system include food supply chains, food environments, individual factors, and consumer behavior, as well as external drivers (factors that push or pull at the system). These different parts shape food systems and can lead to both positive and negative outcomes.

• Ultra-processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The relationship between the global food system and the worldwide rapid increase of obesity and related diseases is not yet well understood. A reason is that the full impact of industrialized food processing on dietary patterns, including the environments of eating and drinking, remains overlooked and underestimated. Many forms of food processing are beneficial. But what is identified and defined here as ultra-processing, a type of process that has become increasingly dominant, at first in high-income countries, and now in middle-income countries, creates attractive, hyper-palatable, cheap, ready-to-consume food products that are characteristically energy-dense, fatty, sugary or salty and generally obesogenic. In this study, the scale of change in purchase and sales of ultra-processed products is examined and the context and implications are discussed. Data come from 79 high- and middle-income countries, with special attention to Canada and Brazil. Results show that ultra-processed products dominate the food supplies of high-income countries, and that their consumption is now rapidly increasing in middle-income countries. It is proposed here that the main driving force now shaping the global food system is transnational food manufacturing, retailing and fast food service corporations whose businesses are based on very profitable, heavily promoted ultra-processed products, many in snack form.

• Towards a common food policy for the European Union : the policy reform and realignment that is required to build sustainable food systems in Europe
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This report argues for a Common Food Policy for the European Union : a policy setting a direction of travel for the whole food system, bringing together the various sectoral policies that affect food production, processing, distribution, and consumption, and refocusing all actions on the transition to sustainability. The Common Food Policy vision draws on the collective intelligence of more than 400 farmers, food entrepreneurs, civil society activists, scientists and policymakers consulted through a three-year process of research and deliberation.

• The practice and politics of food system localization
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  As an apparent counterpoint to globalization, food system localization is often assumed to be a good, progressive and desirable process. Such thinking rests on a local–global binary that merits closer scrutiny. This paper examines the social construction of “local”, by analyzing the practice and politics of food system localization efforts in Iowa, USA. It argues that desirable social or environmental outcomes may not always map neatly onto the spatial content of “local”, which itself involves the social construction of scale. These contradictions in turn relate to differing political inflections discernible in food system localization. Localization can be approached defensively, emphasizing the boundaries and distinctions between a culturally and socially homogeneous locality needing protection from non-local “others”. But through the experience of new social and gustatory exchanges, localization can also promote increased receptivity to difference and diversity. More emergent, fluid and inclusive notions of the “local”, however, may challenge the very project of crafting and maintaining distinctive food identities for local places. These themes are explored through a case study of food system localization efforts and activities in Iowa, an American state that has been a stronghold of conventional commodity agriculture. Demographic and agricultural histories are drawn on to understand recent food system localization practice that has come to emphasize a definition of “local” that coincides with sub-national state boundaries. The emergence and popularization of the “Iowa-grown banquet meal” and the shifting meaning of “local Iowa food” further illustrate the potential tension between defensiveness and diversity in food system localization.

• What’s on the menu ? A global assessment of MUFPP signatory cities’ food strategies. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Increased recognition of the persistent and interconnected nature of food system challenges resulted in the creation of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) in 2015. MUFPP signatory cities commit themselves to contribute to a better functioning food system by adopting integrated approaches. This study assesses the number of MUFPP cities that have developed food strategies and the choices local policymakers make in the design of these strategies. The results show surprising similarities between cities across regions in terms of goals and instruments. At the same time, local governments clearly put different emphases and seem to vary in policy styles.

• An emerging user-led participatory methodology : Mapping impact pathways of urban food system sustainability innovations
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This chapter presents the general framework for the URBAL project as well as the main interwoven considerations and approaches that are the backbone of the methodology. Please note that this is an ongoing project and that it has evolved since the chapter has been written. We will point out some changes in the methodology as the chapter proceeds