(Calenda announcement 1064536)
Study day on food security, a topic of great topicality last year.
The theme will be addressed for the 18th-21st centuries, in its economic and political aspects.
Organized on 13 04 2023 (hybrid study day) by the French Academy of Agriculture, the AEHA (Association for the Study of the History of Agriculture) and the History Committee of the IGEDD (General Inspectorate of Environment and Sustainable Development, ex GGEDD).
Being hungry: ancestral, the apprehension was planetary. The West thought it had been conquered, but the coronavirus pandemic, the disruption of trade, the increase in the price of cereals, the postponement of sowing due to military circumstances or meteorological calamities have shown the fragility of this certainty: abundant food, accessible to the consumer and properly remunerating producers and traders. This Study Day therefore answers four questions:
- How have famines and famine been avoided, if not in the world, at least in Europe?
- What part do public authorities play in the establishment of relative food security?
- How much of this is due to the producers, traders and inhabitants who introduced, proposed and adopted new plants?
- Finally, how far should innovation be pushed, knowing that there are cultural limits to the acceptability of insect-based or synthetic products?
