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• Hungry city. How food shapes our lives
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  How 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.

• The future of food and agriculture. Alternative pathways to 2050
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This 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.

• 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.

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  25 mars 2020, par Mathilde COUDRAY

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• A ‘lived experience of food environments’ international decisionmakers panel: Enhancing policy impact through improved research evidence translation and communication
  1 June 2021, by Mathilde COUDRAY

  Mark Spires, Centre for Food Policy – City, University of London Sigrid Wertheim-Heck, Environmental Policy Group – Wageningen University and Research Michelle Holdsworth, UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems/Montpellier Interdisciplinary Centre on Sustainable Agri-food Systems – Montpellier, France Corinna Hawkes, Centre for Food Policy – City, University of London
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• Small farm production and the standardization of tropical products
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This paper explores the historical relations between labour organization and product qualification in the production of tropical agricultural exports. In supplying international markets for tropical products, peasant farming emerged as the norm for labour organization after the First World War, competing with the large plantations and different systems of forced labour. During the same period, national standards became the dominant tool for product qualification of commodities traded on the global agricultural markets. These standards allow the creation of futures markets and the emergence of traders, instead of auction markets and commission merchants : two changes that were the basis of the subsequent international marketing of peasant-produced commodities. The last part of the paper considers the potential consequences of the current erosion of standards for the position of peasants in tropical export crop cultivation.

• The new science of sustainable food systems : overcoming barriers to food systems reform
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  To accelerate the shift towards sustainable food systems, a new science of sustainable food systems is needed. This paper traces out the contours of a new analytical framework for sustainable food systems (Section 1). It then describes the principles of transdisciplinary science that must be applied in order to generate the types of knowledge that can support the transition to sustainable food systems (Section 2). Finally, it considers previous and ongoing attempts to address sustainable food systems at the interface of science, policy and practice, in order to identify where initiatives have succeeded, where challenges remain, and how these energies can be harnessed and combined to support the transition to sustainable food systems (Section 3).

• Diet for a small planet
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  In 1971, Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniversary, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé goes even deeper, showing us how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy. Sharing her personal journey and how this revolutionary book shaped her own life, Lappé offers a fascinating philosophy on changing yourself—and the world—that can start with changing the way we eat.

• 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.

• A safe and just space for humanity : can we live within the doughnut ?
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Humanity’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.