17 December 2024 – France: the report on agriculture by The Shift Project – a missed opportunity – Rich in data and results from extensive consultations, this report falls short due to its narrow conception and an ‘oversight’ of fundamental issues… [read]
December 2024 – Food security – First part: definitions. This article, the first version of which was downloaded more than 70,000 times, was updated to account for the two new dimensions of food security as well as for the urbanisation of hunger. [read]
December 2024 – Food security – Second part: 50 years of food insecurity. A retrospective of food insecurity in the world and its drivers, from 1970 to 2023. [read]
December 2024 – Food security – Third part: dimensions of food security and their drivers. What are the drivers of the six dimentions of food security? An indispensible analysis for who wants to understand and act… [read]
16 November 2024 – Does aquaculture help make fisheries more sustainable? – Fastest and most spectacularly growing domain in food production over the past 50 years, aquaculture yet has negative economic, social and environmental impacts… [read]
19 October 2024 – Our view of hunger is changing, … so should the way we combat it (urbanisation of hunger) – Today, 75% of the people suffering from hunger live in urban and peri-urban areas… [read]
12 October 2024 – Does ‘naming and shaming’ work? The case of US tuna industry – Greenpeace shows that the tuna industry does not care much about human rights and sustainability. In spite of Greenpeace’s monitoring, improvements observed are far from what is hoped… [read]
27 September 2024 – Measuring reality is quite complex: Two illustrations – Data are useful as they help provide a measurable basis for our grasping of reality. They should, however, not be taken for granted and should always be considered with a spirit of constructive criticism … [read]
August 2024 – World food insecurity back to what it was 15 years ago – Despite progress made in some large countries, food insecurity is on the rise in many parts of the world… [read]
18 July 2024 – Financiers’ pressure on governments is an obstacle to transition: the case of biodiversity – To attract investments and funding, governments are driven to align their policies with the wishes of their ‘partners’. [read]
26 May 2024 – The World Bank presents its recipe to achieve zero net GHG emissions by food – Willl technology and innovation save the cold and mechanical world described by the Bank? [read]
13 May 2024 – In spite of the huge economic and social costs resulting from environmental degradation, the way we invest is not changing – Huge investments in fossil fuels and industrial livestock production have very serious impacts… [read]
April 2024 – European farmers’ protests: Simple crisis or signal of a necessary transition? The European food issue has many dimensions that show signs of weakness which, when combined, threaten the perenniality of the food system as a whole. [read]
7 April 2024 – United States: The improved household food security resulting from boosted food assistance during the pandemic is under threat – Food assistance funding, which is a major line of expenditure under the Farm Bill, might be in danger. [read]
2 April 2024 – India: bitter sugar – In Maharashtra, the reality of sugar is made of violence and exploitation. Another example of how large food multinationals conceal doings that violate the principles to which they claim to adhere. [read]
28 March 2024 – West African solutions: a hopeful note in a hostile world – Despite an unfavourable context, it is possible to make West African food systems evolve towards more sustainability. Some local initiatives demonstrate it convincingly… [read[
21 March 2024 – The European Environment Agency identifies climate risks that require urgent action – Even though Europe is one of the richest parts of the world, it will not sail peacefully through the ongoing climate crisis… [read]
18 March 2024 – Obesity is on the rise everywhere in the world (season 2) – A study using a daunting amount of data estimates that there are more than one billion obese people in the world. This situation has dramatic sanitary and economic consequences. [read]
January 2024 – Opinion: ‘Developing countries’, a convenient and resilient fiction? by Materne Maetz – An analysis of country performances in the economic, health, education, undernourishment, poverty, energy, communications and social protection fields helps to give an answer to this question. [read]
January 2024 – In the heart of the global economic system: The protection of intellectual property rights – The explosion of legal instruments for the protection of intellectual property rights, at the end of the 20th century, triggered a radical transformation of the global economy, the impacts of which are of serious concern. [read]
11 January 2024 – The food situation in the Sahel is deteriorating – Despite a growing agricultural production, the number of people in a situation of food insecurity requiring serious assistance jumped from 4 million to nearly 32 million in 5 years. [read]