Système alimentaire

Articles

• Alimentation durable et économie sociale et solidaire : les liaisons fertiles
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Par nature transversale, la transition agroécologique et alimentaire est au carrefour de cultures et d’influences que les acteurs conjuguent au quotidien. Notamment l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire (ESS) qui permet de penser autrement les filières et chaînes de valeur agricoles et offre un cadre fertile pour de nouvelles alliances. Cette nouvelle étude donne la parole aux acteurs de terrain mais aussi à ceux qui les accompagnent et les financent. Sans prétention d’exhaustivité, elle explore les points de rencontre entre la chaîne de valeurs alimentaire et l’ESS, offre des informations pratiques pour se lancer et identifie les voies de développement.

• Colloque 2022 "Boissons, des aliments comme les autres ?"
  20 septembre 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Les boissons étaient au menu du 11e colloque de la Chaire en juin 2022 : besoins physiologiques, notions d’ivresse et de dépendance, et grands enjeux économiques, culturels, environnementaux et politiques étaient au programme. La journée a permis des éclairages plus particuliers sur l’eau (potable et embouteillée), le vin, le café (d’où vient-il, et comment le déguster ?) et le lait de chamelle (un aliment miracle ?).

• Document provisoire. Projet Foodscapes - Connaître les paysages alimentaires des habitants : une recherche dans le Grand Montpellier.
  10 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Le projet Foodscapes vise à analyser les relations entre les paysages alimentaires
  urbains (commerces alimentaires, marchés, jardins, etc.) et les styles alimentaires des citadins (consommations, pratiques et représentations).

• 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.

• 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.

• La transition en actions. Des initiatives inspirantes pour une agriculture et une alimentation plus durables
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Ce document sur la Transition en actions présente des initiatives pour inspirer ceux qui souhaitent accélérer la transition sur leurs territoires. Les solutions présentées dans cet ouvrage sont des illustrations concrètes de démarches déjà mises en œuvre en France et en Espagne qui sont soutenus par la Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.

• Avoiding the local trap : scale and food systems in planning research
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  A strong current of food-systems research holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales. Many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially just. We term this the local trap and argue strongly against it. We draw on current scale theory in political and economic geography to argue that local food systems are no more likely to be sustainable or just than systems at other scales. The theory argues that scale is socially produced : scales (and their interrelations) are not independent entities with inherent qualities but strategies pursued by social actors with a particular agenda. It is the content of that agenda, not the scales themselves, that produces outcomes such as sustainability or justice. As planners move increasingly into food-systems research, we argue it is critical to avoid the local trap. The article’s theoretical approach to scale offers one way to do so.

• Rencontres Sciences-société pour des solidarités alimentaires
  3 novembre 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Alors que les difficultés d’une large partie de la population pour accéder à une alimentation saine et durable ont été révélées et aggravées par la crise sanitaire, un nombre croissant d’acteur.rice.s issu.e.s de la recherche, de la société civile, du travail social, du système alimentaire ou des collectivités se mobilise pour penser les conditions d’une justice alimentaire. Retrouvez toutes les vidéos des deux journées des 22 et 23 septembre 2022 à Montpellier.

• 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.

• 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).