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Nourrir les hommes - Un dictionnaire

25/02/2010 - Article

Feeding people. A real 21st-century challenge: there will be nine billion people on Earth by 2050 and in 2009, a billion people were already hungry, while a further two billion were malnourished. An urgent issue: for some 20 years, the percentage of people going hungry worldwide had been falling, but it rose sharply in 2008 and 2009.

Why are people hungry? Who is safe from the threat when people who thought they were safe are also falling victim, like a growing number of families in France? What are the means available to individuals, communities, firms, institutions, governments and humanity as a whole to boost the amount of food available and distribute it more fairly? What are the economic, social and environmental issues involved in green revolutions, GMOs, cultivation of new areas, and intensified production?

This dictionary gives clear answers to these questions and many others. More than 40 of the most highly reputed agronomists, economists, specialists in international relations, historians, geographers, sociologists, doctors, nutritionists, agrifood engineers, development practitioners, distribution experts and farmers from France and elsewhere compare their points of view, enabling an analysis of this complex subject.

Nourrir les hommes is a condensed work that is accessible to anyone. In addition to 500 articles, ranging from abattoirs to zoonoses, the book takes stock of the issues and current knowledge in terms of the subject, via headings such as adolescence, Bayer, beets, beer, biosafety, cuniculture, doubly green revolution, food self-sufficiency, Gurdev Khush, locavore, mingong, omega 3, PDOs, spirulina or "the open veins of Latin America". At the heart of the debate lies this dictionary, into which readers can dip to learn things that may surprise them or raise a smile, and which straddles the barriers between disciplines, making it a formidable tool for understanding a subject that is vital for building a responsible future.

Nourrir les hommes - Un dictionnaire
Didier Bazile, Stéphane Boulakia, Robert Chapuis, Jean-Paul Charvet, Michel Griffon, Frédéric Landy, Philippe Lemarchand, Anne Lhuissier, Jérôme Marie, Marcel Mazoyer, Françoise Plet, Laurence Roudart, Thibaut de Saint Pol, Philippe Verger, et al.
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Editions Atlande, 2009