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• Diet for a small planet
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  In 1971, Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniversary, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé goes even deeper, showing us how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy. Sharing her personal journey and how this revolutionary book shaped her own life, Lappé offers a fascinating philosophy on changing yourself—and the world—that can start with changing the way we eat.

• Comparison of sociodemographic and nutritional characteristics between self-reported vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters from the NutriNet-Santé study
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  There is a growing trend for vegetarian and vegan diets in many Western countries. Epidemiological evidence suggesting that such diets may help in maintaining good health is rising. However, dietary and sociodemographic characteristics of vegetarians and vegans are not well known. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe sociodemographic and nutritional characteristics of self-reported, adult vegetarians and vegans, compared to meat-eaters, from the French NutriNet-Santé study.

• Food swamps predict obesity rates better than food deserts in the United States
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This paper investigates the effect of food environments, characterized as food swamps, on adult obesity rates. Food swamps have been described as areas with a high-density of establishments selling high-calorie fast food and junk food, relative to healthier food options. This study examines multiple ways of categorizing food environments as food swamps and food deserts, including alternate versions of the Retail Food Environment Index. We merged food outlet, sociodemographic and obesity data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Environment Atlas, the American Community Survey, and a commercial street reference dataset. We employed an instrumental variables (IV) strategy to correct for the endogeneity of food environments (i.e., that individuals self-select into neighborhoods and may consider food availability in their decision). Our results suggest that the presence of a food swamp is a stronger predictor of obesity rates than the absence of full-service grocery stores. We found, even after controlling for food desert effects, food swamps have a positive, statistically significant effect on adult obesity rates. All three food swamp measures indicated the same positive association, but reflected different magnitudes of the food swamp effect on rates of adult obesity (p values ranged from 0.00 to 0.16). Our adjustment for reverse causality, using an IV approach, revealed a stronger effect of food swamps than would have been obtained by naïve ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates. The food swamp effect was stronger in counties with greater income inequality (p < 0.05) and where residents are less mobile (p < 0.01). Based on these findings, local government policies such as zoning laws simultaneously restricting access to unhealthy food outlets and incentivizing healthy food retailers to locate in underserved neighborhoods warrant consideration as strategies to increase health equity.

• The future of food and agriculture. Alternative pathways to 2050
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  This report explores three different scenarios for the future of food and agriculture, based on alternative trends for key drivers, including income growth and distribution, population growth, technical progress and climate change.

• 21/ Child undernutrition in Guatemala: aggravating factors and levers
  29 September 2022, by Mathilde COUDRAY

  – Juliana Yael Milovich, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, United Kingdom Elena Villar, Department of Economics and Finance, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
  Key points The aggressive expansion of African palm farming in Guatemala is exacerbating chronic child undernutrition by jeopardizing families’ access to sufficient food. Nutritional health programmes that operate at local level and involve all community members are particularly effective in reducing child (...)

• 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.

• Conférence–débat sur l’accès à l’alimentation et les déserts alimentaires
  10 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  "Deconstructing Food Access and Food Deserts in Chicago and Beyond : Public Health, Geographic Information Systems, and the Power of Maps".

• 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).

• 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.

• Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems : Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Puts forward a new concept to analyse the man-nature relationship. Offers governance solutions to face the ecological emergency. Provides a unique view on environmental change using inter- and transdisciplinary approaches.