Holistique

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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.

• MOND’Alim 2030, panorama prospectif de la mondialisation des systèmes alimentaires
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  En matières agricole et alimentaire, les dynamiques locales sont de plus en plus conditionnées par des facteurs lointains et globaux : l’emploi en Bretagne est lié aux activités agroalimentaires au Brésil ou en Nouvelle-Zélande, le développement rural en Malaisie découle du rapport des consommateurs européens à l’huile de palme, le café au Vietnam dépend des décisions multilatérales sur le climat, les influences culinaires japonaises ou américaines rencontrent les traditions alimentaires européennes ou mexicaines, etc.
  Cette mondialisation des systèmes alimentaires est autant économique que culturelle, sociale, politique, informationnelle, scientifique, juridique, etc. Elle désigne un processus multiséculaire qui se poursuit, se transforme, s’approfondit à certaines époques et s’atténue à d’autres.

• Foodscape : A scoping review and a research agenda for food security-related studies
  10 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Since 1995, the term ‘foodscape’, a contraction of food and landscape, has been used in various research addressing social and spatial disparities in public health and food systems. This article presents a scoping review of the literature examining how this term is employed and framed. We searched publications using the term foodscape in the Web of Science Core Collection, MEDLINE, and Scopus databases.

• Les intermittents du bio. Pour une sociologie pragmatique des choix alimentaires émergents
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Des incertitudes d’ordre sanitaire, diététique et gustatif et des motivations éthiques conduisent certains consommateurs vers les produits biologiques. Mais la majorité d’entre eux restent partiels et irréguliers dans leur choix bio. Le cas de ces mangeurs bio "intermittents" offre un accès à la complexité et à la variabilité des pratiques alimentaires. L’auteur étudie leurs trajectoires et leurs choix et propose une analyse pragmatique et microsociologique des comportements alimentaires dans leurs processus de basculement et de stabilisation, défendant ainsi la thèse d’une réflexivité routinière. L’étude du rôle des systèmes de vente alternatifs dans les choix de ces mangeurs montre comment se construit la confiance et souligne les dimensions politiques de la consommation alimentaire.

• Présentation du numéro 31 de la revue Communications « La nourriture, pour une anthropologie bioculturelle de l’alimentation »
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  "L’homme est un omnivore qui se nourrit de viande, de végétaux et d’imaginaire : l’alimentation ramène à la biologie mais, de toute évidence, elle ne s’y ramène pas ; le symbolique et l’onirique, les signes, les mythes, les fantasmes nourrissent, eux aussi, et ils concourent à régler notre nourriture. Dans l’acte alimentaire, homme biologique et homme social sont étroitement, mystérieusement, mêlés et intriqués."

• 2017/ Quand l’alimentation se fait politique
  12 juillet 2017, par Roxane

  Dans le cadre du 14e Congrès de l’Association française de sciences politiques (AFSP), qui se tiendra à Montpellier du 10 au 12 juillet 2017, la Chaire Unesco Alimentations du monde et l’AFSP ont organisé une conférence-débat.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• The governance of city food systems : case studies from around the world
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This book brings together eight papers on the governance of city food systems. As case studies, they examine the governance of city food systems in Milan, Belo Horizonte, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Bristol, Bangkok, Jakarta and Singapore.