"Food and nutritional security refers to the challenge of providing sustainable, healthy and accessible food to all people. It has four interconnected dimensions: availability, access, utilization and stability.
From 2014 to 2020, CIRAD and INRAE led an ambitious interdisciplinary flagship programme on the transitions for global food security called GloFoodS.
Authored by principal investigators and contributors to research projects funded by GloFoodS, this book is representative of the programmes interdisciplinary research but does not claim to provide exhaustive coverage of topics and approaches of food security. It presents recent research findings from many disciplines, including the life, engineering and social sciences. "
Section I - Governance of food systems
Chapter 1. Governance matters but is it what you think?
Chapter 2. Land management, value-chain governance and food security: examples in Senegal, Morocco and France
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
Chapter 4. Shocks in agricultural production: origins and impacts on commodity prices
Chapter 5. Food diets and land-use change at a global scale: the key role of modelling frameworks
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
Chapter 7. Agroecological innovations, food and nutrition security and food safety for small farmers: Africa-Europe perspectives
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
Chapter 9. Artisanal palm oils: from quality design in southern Cameroon to consumption in Yaoundé
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
Chapter 11. Leveraging agroecology to improve milk production and marketing: insights from case studies in Burkina Faso, France and India
Section VI - Local ressources management as a driver of food security
Chapter 12. Food security and natural resources: diversification strategies
Chapter 13. Urban food waste: a resource for circular economy between cities and agriculture
Chapter 14. Market gardening for African cities: contributions, challenges and innovations towards food security.
