Consumer health safety is in danger, as market authorization of new chemical products (pesticides, antibiotics, colouring and other additives) largely if not exclusively relies on data collected by those industrialists who manufacture them. Meanwhile, as undernourishment is again on the rise, overweight and obesity are booming everywhere in the world, with their associated non-transmissible diseases.
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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]
February 2024 – Opinions: ‘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]
August 2023 – Facts and figures on world food insecurity and malnutrition – Food insecurity stable globally, but still on the rise in Africa, SDGs out of reach – Unless efforts are redoubled and better targeted, the objective set by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of “ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 will remain out of reach”. [read]
February 2023 – Science, what science ? A problem or part of the solution? (When the industry doctors science for profit) – In the 16th century, Rabelais was already warning us that “Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition” and we may add to it now, without hesitation, “and that of the world”…. [read]
16 October 2021 – Public support to agriculture has been promoting unhealthy and polluting products and generating more inequality in the world – A transition to more sustainable food systems (economically, socially and environmentally) will require a total reengineering of current support policies. [read]
October 2020 – The real cost of food: Can the market alone guide our food systems towards more sustainability?
Market prices neither reflect the real cost of food nor provide the right signals and incentives to producers and consumers for orienting our food system towards more sustainability. What should be done to fix this? [read]
May 2020 – Opinion: Reflections on the Impact on Human Capital of Two Pandemics : COVID 19 around the world and HIV/AIDS in Kenya by Andrew MacMillan. While HIV/AIDS has been killing people in their prime, hitting able bodied workers, COVID-19 mainly kills ‘senior citizens’ who have no longer been working and it generates gigantic indirect costs. [read]
10 May 2020 – The COVID-19 dilemma: Health or the economy? The world faces the “health – economy” dilemma. In poor countries, it means choosing between saving people from the pandemic or saving them from hunger. Some elements of the debate. [read]
September 2019 – Why is it so difficult to make our food system more sustainable and climate-friendly? An analysis of historical, ideological and structural obstacles of a transition towards a more sustainable and climate-friendly food system. [read]
13 July 2019 – Being a lobbyist : accept to accuse sustainable agriculture in order to help develop profits of firms that fund you – Mixing freely carefully selected statistical, ideological, scientific and moral arguments to illustrate their point of view in defiance of any rigour, lobbyists promote ideas – and so-called solutions – that are damaging for the future of world food. [read]
11 June 2019 – Protecting our health and environment – Is justice to substitute rules and regulations? In the face of the inability of Parliaments and Governments to take appropriate measures, consumers and citizens have been obliged to invoke the third power : Justice. [read]