Food System Sustainability

Catherine Esnouf is the Deputy Scientific Director for Food at INRA. She is also the head of a national research network that promotes research partnerships and industrial innovation on the sensory and nutritional quality of food. Marie Russel is a scientific project manager at INRA. She uses interdisciplinary approaches involving food sciences and the humanities to investigate agricultural and nutritional issues. Nicolas Bricas is a researcher at CIRAD who specialises in food security policies and projects. His main areas of research include the effects of urbanisation on food habits in Africa and Asia and the role of small scale food processing in food security and poverty alleviation.

• Foreword; Introduction; 1. Context: new challenges for food systems; 2. Consumption and consumers; 3. Carbon footprint and nutritional quality of diets in France; 4. Food systems; 5. Industrial organisation and sustainability; 6. Urbanisation and the sustainability of food systems; 7. Losses and wastage; 8. International trade, price volatility and standards for sustainability; 9. Elements for a foresight debate on food sustainability; 10. A critical panorama of methods used to assess food sustainability; Conclusion; References; List of abbreviations; List of duALIne experts; Index.

'… the duALIne project brought together 125 experts on food systems from various sectors to review the literature and make recommendations on future research priorities … This volume is full of food for thought for advanced students, researchers, and policy makers in agricultural economies, public health, and sociology. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' E. G. Harrington, Choice