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• La social-écologie : une perspective théorique et empirique
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Dans son acception la plus commune, le développement soutenable se définit comme la préoccupation éthique et politique accordée simultanément aux enjeux économiques, sociaux et écologiques. Trois chaînons unissent dans cette optique les trois domaines de la soutenabilité : la relation « économie-environnement », la relation « économie-social » et la relation « social-environnement ». Au vu de l’état actuel de la recherche et des politiques publiques, un constat paradoxal s’impose : alors même qu’il s’agissait du cœur du travail de la commission Brundtland (1983-1987), la relation « social-environnement » est, près de trois décennies après la publication du rapport qui en a popularisé le concept, le chaînon manquant du développement soutenable.

• Power at the table : food fights and happy meals
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  In family meals the normative and the performative are very far apart—though everyone likes to think of the family table as a place of harmony and solidarity, it is often the scene for the exercise of power and authority, a place where conflict prevails. My interest in this topic was sparked by research on middle-class parents’ struggles with their “picky eater” children. Besides narrating the way the dinner table became battleground with their own children, many parents also recalled their own childhood family meals as painful and difficult. From this very narrow focus on family struggles, I expand the discussion to the larger question of why this topic is relatively ignored in social science, and I question the sources of the normative power of the family “happy meal.” The ideological emphasis on family dinners has displaced social responsibility from public institutions to private lives, and the construction of normative family performances is part of a process that constructs different family types as deviant and delinquent.

• When collective action drives corporate social responsibility implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises : the case of a network of French winemaking cooperatives
  23 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Increasing attention has been given to the engagement of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in corporate social responsibility (CSR), yet little is known about collective SME actions to implement CSR. We conducted 29 semi-structured interviews to investigate a network of 18 French winemaking cooperatives. These SMEs are particularly interesting because they have traditionally operated on values similar to CSR principles. The case study explores how collective action was able to drive CSR implementation in the cooperatives over time. Our results highlight the mechanisms of collective action related to social capital and their impacts on cooperative relationships with key stakeholders. We also provide managerial recommendations for this type of CSR network.

• Corporate concentration and technological change in the global seed industry
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and to investigate the potential impact on the agri-food chain of the trend toward increased corporate concentration. The first part of this paper presents the main characteristics of the global seed sector, its stakeholders, and its size in the agri-food chain. Next, the corporate consolidation trends of the seed industry over the past two years are examined. The technological evolution of the seed sector is also briefly presented. In the last part of this paper, the fallout of recent mergers and acquisitions in the seed industry are analyzed. Opposing views are expressed on the impact of these mergers and acquisitions in the agri-food chain : while certain stakeholders worry about the risk of food power by the biggest companies, some others expect useful innovations.

• Circuits courts alimentaires, dynamiques relationnelles et lutte contre l’exclusion en agriculture
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Les circuits courts alimentaires, sujet d’actualité, sont parfois idéalisés alors que leur capacité à réduire les inégalités reste à approfondir. À partir des apports de la sociologie économique, l’article cherche à montrer en quoi et comment ces circuits, en tant que marchés valorisant les liens sociaux, peuvent permettre d’intégrer des positions sociales marginalisées en agriculture, identifiées à partir d’un travail préalable de bibliographie et d’enquêtes. Basée sur une analyse longitudinale des relations sociales et des récits de vie, la recherche fait émerger trois types de dynamiques relationnelles facilitant l’intégration d’exclus. La contribution illustre les circuits courts considérés comme des outils au service d’un développement social durable.

• Resource over-exploitation and running out
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Food systems around the world are highly dependent on both renewable and nonrenewable resources. Drivers such as population growth, urbanisation and climate change put a lot of pressure on resources that have become core issues for the future of food systems. Cropland availability is limited in most parts of the world, adding pressure for cropping intensification. Fossil energy and phosphorus shortages are expected to occur within a few decades, with particular impact in Low-Income (LI) countries where farmers are more vulnerable to volatile prices. The availability of very unevenly distributed freshwater resources shows a similar picture, with an increasing number of regions reaching alarming levels of water scarcity. Some world fish stocks have been overexploited and are now depleted. But the situation is not without hope. While we need to intensify food systems to meet the challenge of a growing population, new ways to produce with less impact on the environment and more resilience to climate change need to be widely adopted.

• CAP vs Farm to Fork : Will we pay billions to destroy, or to support biodiversity, climate, and farmers ?
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The EU’s current model of agriculture directs billions in EU taxpayers’ money to fuel climate change, destroy biodiversity, and even undermine farmers’ livelihoods. While the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is approaching a key vote, freedom of information requests show that farmers and agribusiness lobby group Copa-Cogeca, along with pesticides and food industry giants, are doing their best to stop the CAP reform from aligning with the new Farm to Fork strategy of the Green Deal.

• La situation mondiale des pêches et de l’aquaculture
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  La situation mondiale des pêches et de l’aquaculture a pour finalité de présenter des informations objectives, fiables et actualisées à un large éventail de lecteurs – décideurs, gestionnaires, scientifiques, parties prenantes et, plus généralement, toute personne s’intéressant au secteur de la pêche et de l’aquaculture.

• Genre et alimentation à l’épreuve de la vie urbaine en Afrique, Amérique latine Asie
  1er juillet 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Numéro thématique de la revue Anthropology of Food valorisant plusieurs papiers issus du colloque "Manger en ville" d’octobre 2020.

• A nouveau en eaux troubles - IPES FOOD
  25 mai 2022, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Comment l’incapacité à réformer les systèmes alimentaires a permis à la guerre en Ukraine de déclencher une troisième crise mondiale des prix alimentaires en 15 ans, et comment éviter la prochaine