Sustainable food systems for food security: need for combination of local and global approaches

Sustainable food systems for food security: need for combination of local and global approaches / Thomas, Alban, Alpha, Arlène, Barczak, Aleksandra, Zakhia-Rozis, Nadine. Versailles : Quae, 2022.

Section I – Governance of food systems
Chapter 1. Governance matters… but is it what you think?

• Analysing food security through the lens of governance
• Three perspectives on food security governance

Chapter 2. Land management, value-chain governance and food security: examples in Senegal, Morocco and France

• Limited counterbalancing governance facing agribusiness in Senegal
• Casablanca, Morocco: an emerging system of governance, as illustrated by the Ouled Hadda industrial zone
• Purchasing land for agricultural projects in France’s Île-de-France region

Section II – Linking agricultural supply with food and nutritional needs
Chapter 3. Analysing the nutrition transition through food supply and demand : cross-perspective approaches in economics, management and nutrition

• Exploring nutrition transition determinants
• Levers to reverse nutrition transition from consumption to agricultural production

Chapter 4. Shocks in agricultural production: origins and impacts on commodity prices

• Main biotic and abiotic factors responsible for production shocks
• Data-driven approaches to anticipate production shocks and assess their impact on prices
• Information transmission in agricultural commodity markets

Chapter 5. Food diets and land-use change at a global scale: the key role of modelling frameworks

• Three contrasted modelling frameworks
• Simulated scenarios
• Results

Section III – From agroecological innovations to dietary diversity
Chapter 6. Valuing the roles of women in food security through a gender lens: a cross-cutting analysis in Senegal and Nicaragua

• Reconsidering women’s contributions to household FSN
• Analytical framework of gender relations in household FSN
• Women, work and gender inequality in agriculture and food systems in Nicaragua and Senegal

Chapter 7. Agroecological innovations, food and nutrition security and food safety for small farmers: Africa-Europe perspectives

• Presentation of case studies and main results

Section IV – Innovating processing for high-quality foods
Chapter 8. Reducing food loss and waste in meat and fruit supply chains: how food engineering can help

• Objectives and approach
• Loss and waste along meat chains
• Loss and waste along fruit chains
• Smart design and application of innovative technologies to reduce FLW

Chapter 9. Artisanal palm oils: from quality design in southern Cameroon to consumption in Yaoundé

• Characteristics of processed fruits, artisanal mills and production factors in the surveyed area
• Influence of processed fruit types and process parameters on the composition and quality of artisanal red palm oil
• Supply and market practices for artisanal and industrial RPOs in Yaoundé
• Red palm oil: choice criteria, purchase strategy and consumption in Yaoundé
• Red palm oil: a main ingredient in local dishes

Section V – Agroecology to promote resilient food value chains
Chapter 10. Neither quite the same nor quite another: diversity, identity and resilience in agroecological transition

• Pasteurization, a technique for control and optimization
• Diversity of organization forms in territorial development

Chapter 11. Leveraging agroecology to improve milk production and marketing: insights from case studies in Burkina Faso, France and India

• Milk production and marketing: current trends in three contrasting regions
• Evidence of agroecology in milk production and marketing systems
• Discussion and conclusion

Section VI – Local ressources management as a driver of food security
Chapter 12. Food security and natural resources: diversification strategies

• Diversifying farming systems to improve food security in Sahelian agroforestry parklands
• Cocoa-based agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon: does higher cultivated diversity provide better food security?
• Cereal-cowpea intercropping in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for soil fertility and food security
• Palm oil expansion and food security in Indonesia: heterogeneity and inequality effects
• Switching to more diversified and sustainable production systems in Brazil: effectiveness and permanence of REDD+ programmes

Chapter 13. Urban food waste: a resource for circular economy between cities and agriculture

• How to reduce urban food waste by considering the circular economy?
• Territorial metabolism: a method to quantify and qualify urban waste
• Recycling urban food waste through animal husbandry

Chapter 14. Market gardening for African cities: contributions, challenges and innovations towards food security

• Contribution of market gardening to food security
• Evolution of production systems and reduction of environmental impacts
• Innovation paths of market gardening