Wich world food system for a sustainable development?

Quel système alimentaire mondial pour un développement durable ?

Jean-Louis Rastoin ()
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Jean-Louis Rastoin: Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier, Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: In a process of world economic domination by an agro-industrial and agro-tertiary food system, the author wonders about the feasibility of an alternative model. The intensive agro-industrial model (financiarised, concentrated, specialized and globalised) allows remarkable results in terms of products prices and safety, but generates negative externalities. In the long term, this model could threat the food equilibrium of the populations and ecological balance of our planet. The concept of sustainable development provides some orientations on which the researchers are invited to work: definition of new food basis, design of shorter and more diversified productive and marketing systems, discussion of governance models, on a regional, national and international scale. These prospect simply the definition of voluntarist public policies.

Keywords: FOOD SYSTEM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; AGROFOOD INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIE AGROALIMENTAIRE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Economia e Diritto Agroalimentare, 2007, 12 (3), pp.19-31

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