Holistique

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• Stéphane Guilbert "Quelles transitions vers une industrie alimentaire plus durable ?"
  21 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Intervention de Stéphane Guilbert, professeur Emérite à Montpellier SupAgro

• 2018 / Colloque « Coopérer dans les filières et les territoires pour une agriculture et une alimentation durables »
  12 décembre 2018, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Retrouvez les actes de cette journée et (re)visionnez les vidéos des intervenants.

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• Sustainable diets. How ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends ? The evidence of diet’s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.