Third session of the CEPEL seminar "Building urban food policies".
The third session of the CEPEL laboratory's "Actualité de la recherche en sciences sociales" research seminar took place on Tuesday January 21 from 10am to 12pm in room 005 (building 2) at Montpellier's Faculty of Law and Political Science (22, Rue Lallemand or 14, Rue Cardinal de Cabrières).
We had the pleasure of welcoming Laura MICHEL and Nicolas BRICAS for the presentation of their book also coordinated with Caroline BRAND, Damien CONARÉ, Benoit DAVIRON, Julie DEBRU and Christophe-Toussaint SOULARD :
Building urban food policies. Concepts and approaches
Éditions Quæ, 2017
The presentation was discussed by Claire DEDIEU (PhD in political science) and Alissia LOURME-RUIZ (PhD in economics).
This book is also available in English under the title Designing Urban Food Policies (Springer, 2019).
The following is a summary of thebook:Driven by the agri-food industries, today's dominant food system is not sustainable. Studies and expert reports are multiplying to show its limits in terms of resource use, distancing, health, equity, employment, etc. Faced with these findings, public and private players are mobilizing, and initiatives are emerging in which "urban governments" are becoming increasingly active and powerful. This book is the result of work carried out as part of the Surfood (Sustainable urban food systems) program coordinated by the UNESCO "Alimentations du monde" Chair, as well as research-action carried out in support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole in the construction of its agro-ecological and food policy. Written by a group of researchers, it describes existing conceptual frameworks for analyzing urban food policies, at the crossroads of the food system and sustainable city concepts. It provides a basis for identifying research questions in relation to local urban government initiatives, both in the North and South. The book is aimed at scientists and experts who analyze and support urban food policies. Experts in local policies as a whole will also find it of interest.
The authors:
Caroline Brand is a geographer in charge of the Unesco World Food Chair. She studies the emergence of food issues in the construction of local food policies.
Nicolas Bricas is an agricultural engineer and food socio-economist, and a CIRAD researcher. He heads the Unesco World Food Chair.
Damien Conaré has been General Secretary of the UNESCO World Food Chair since its creation in 2011.
Benoît Daviron is a researcher in political economy at CIRAD. He works on the long history of agricultural markets and policies.
Julie Debru is an agricultural engineer, in charge of the Unesco World Food Chair. She coordinated the Surfood program.
Laura Michel is a lecturer in political science at the University of Montpellier. She works on development projects and local agricultural and food policies.
Christophe-Toussaint Soulard is a geographer at INRA. He coordinated the research team in charge of developing Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole's food policy.
