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Evaluating Sustainable Food System Innovations
This book presents URBAL, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability. Around the world, people are finding innovative ways to make their food systems more sustainable. However, documenting and understanding how these innovations impact the sustainability of food system can be a challenge. The Urban Driven Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems (URBAL) methodology responds to these constraints by providing innovations with a simple, open-source, resource-efficient tool that is easily appropriated and adaptable to different contexts. URBAL is designed to respond to th...
Marketing for Sustainable Development
Many people see a weak association between marketing and sustainable development and even consider them as two incompatible fields. However, marketing benefits from an extremely powerful position to encourage transformations at the production level and to guide consumers towards responsible behaviors. From its inception, marketing has been positioned as a support for the relationship between the company and its customers, with the quest for well-being set in the very foundations of the discipline. In a context that is marked by crises and much skepticism, marketing today should, more than ever, prove that it acts in good faith. This book offers practitioners, public authorities, professors and students illustrations that demonstrate that the dissemination of sustainable practices is indeed a marketing issue. It argues that it is particularly important not only to overcome the divide between the concepts of marketing and sustainability, but also to use marketing tools and frameworks to support sustainable development and strengthen the green market.
Food Loss and Waste Policy
This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, drawing on in-depth case studies and action research. The volume is organised into four parts: Understanding Food Loss and Waste, International Programmes, National Policies and Local Initiatives. The first part introduces the reader to the concept of food loss and waste, how it can be measured, its causes and consequences, and how it can be red...
Food systems at risk
The way food systems have evolved over past decades means that they now face major risks, which in turn threaten the future of food systems themselves. Food systems have seriously contributed to climate change, environmental destruction, overexploitation of natural resources and pollution of air, water and soils. Despite the global average improvement in calorie production and major development of the food and agricultural product markets, huge inequalities in food access and repartition of the added value have emerged, leading to new serious nutritional and social problems. Based on a review of the most recent scientific knowledge, this report emphasizes Low-Income and Lower Middle-Income c...
The Real Cost of Cheap Food
This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will be paid for in other ways or by future generations and cheap food today may mean expensive food tomorrow. By systematically assessing these costs the book delves into issues related, but not limited to, the food system, the environment, sustainable development, health, and social justice. In this ne...
Madagascar face aux enjeux du développement durable
Cet ouvrage aborde la question du développement durable à Madagascar, un pays qui associe à une exceptionnelle biodiversité la grande pauvreté de la majorité de ses habitants. Il est l'aboutissement de travaux de recherche visant à étudier les politiques environnementales et l'action collective locale, insérées dans des pratiques d'aide au développement. Quels sont les enjeux de développement durable à Madagascar par rapport au contexte international et quelles sont les conditions de mise en place et de réalisation des politiques environnementales ? De quels moyens dispose-t-on à Madagascar pour élaborer des politiques et des stratégies de développement durable ? Les expériences locales contribuent-elles au renouvellement des réflexions sur le développement durable ? Cet ouvrage vise un large public : les chercheurs du Nord comme des Suds, les acteurs de terrain, les enseignants et les étudiants intéressés par la thématique du développement durable dans les pays en développement.
Le marketing au service du développement durable
Nombreux sont ceux qui voient le marketing et le développement durable comme deux domaines complètement éloignés, voire opposés. Pourtant, le marketing occupe une position privilégiée pour encourager des transformations au niveau de la production et orienter les consommateurs vers des comportements responsables. Dès son origine, le marketing s’est placé comme support d’une relation entre l’entreprise et ses clients, la quête du bien-être appartenant aux fondements mêmes de la discipline. Dans un contexte marqué par des crises et par un scepticisme ambiant, le marketing devrait aujourd’hui, plus que jamais, prouver « sa bonne foi ». Cet ouvrage offre aux praticiens, pouvoirs publics, enseignants et étudiants des illustrations démontrant que disséminer les pratiques durables est bien une question de marketing. Il affirme l’intérêt tout particulier de dépasser le clivage entre les deux notions, mais également celui de s’appuyer sur les outils et cadres d’analyse du marketing pour soutenir un développement durable et renforcer le marché vert.
Sustainable Food Procurement
The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels. While there is a growing recognition that public authorities can use public procurement as a policy tool to pursue multiple environmental, health and socio-economic objectives, contracting authorities still face many challenges. This volume investigates the scope for pursuing sustainable objectives in public procurement of food and catering services, examining different regulatory contexts and organisational models to answer the overall qu...
How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry
This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain, from farm to fork, exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the journey. Written by a team of authors with decades of experience in the food industry and academia, it provides guidance on how to analyse sustainability across the value chain and life cycle of a food product and how to design, implement and communicate strategies to customers. Furthermore, the book shows that there are not always straightforward solutions, but rather choices and trade-offs that requ...
