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For sustainable food - duALIne strategic thinking exercise
09/12/2011 - Article
The book reports the results of duALIne, a strategic thinking exercise by CIRAD and INRA, on food sustainability in industrialized and developing countries in the light of current issues. Associating public- and private-sector players and researchers served to inventory current knowledge of the key issues surrounding food, with regards to its impact on the environment, health and the economy, in the light of global change.
The issue of global food supply systems has hitherto primarily been addressed from the point of view of production. There is now some doubt about the sustainability of these systems, and "sustainable food" is quite definitely a major issue for the coming years. The upper part of such systems, from when food leaves the field to when it reaches the consumer, now needs to be analysed in the light of this. The challenge is to provide people with food that satisfies their requirements, in terms of both quality and quantity, in a context of sustainable development. This question encompasses our capacity to ensure that vital requirements are satisfied and to develop the global food system, while respecting the tenets of sustainable development: the environment, health, social equity and economics.
INRA and CIRAD associated academic, institutional and private players from the sector on a study of the trends in food supply systems worldwide, from the point of view of their effects on the pillars of sustainable development. The debate conducted under the duALIne study (food sustainability in the light of current issues) served to paint a picture of the changes in food systems and identify the key points in those systems so as to pinpoint lines of research for future programmes.
This book will be of interest to decision-makers and stakeholders in the field of food.
Catherine Esnouf is a graduate of the École polytechnique and the École nationale du génie rural et des eaux et forêts, with a PhD in applied chemistry. She is Deputy Scientific Director for Food and Nutrition at INRA and Director of the Institut Carnot Qualiment, a network of excellence tasked with promoting private/public research in partnership on food sensorial and nutritional quality.
Marie Russel is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaires, with a PhD in ancient history. In her studies of fruit preservation in Ancient Greece and Rome, she adopted an interdisciplinary approach that gave rise to a new way of looking at the current issues surrounding food. She works partway between the human sciences and life sciences, and coordinated a CNRS EU project on preindustrial agriculture, and then the duALIne strategic thinking exercise for INRA.
Nicolas Bricas is an agronomist and food sociologist. After six years supporting small- and medium-sized agrifood firms working on research and development projects in Africa, he joined CIRAD in 1989. He works on changing food habits in developing countries and their impact on agriculture, food security, health and wellbeing.
Pour une alimentation durable - Réflexion stratégique DuALIne
Catherine Esnouf, Marie Russel, Nicolas Bricas
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2011
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