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The repercussions of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine lead us to consider food and nutritional security as a fundamental issue for the territories, especially for small island economies. By taking into consideration their specificities as well as the needs of the populations, food resilience makes it possible to achieve food and nutritional security through the challenges of relocation and the fight once morest food insecurity.
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Food and nutrition security. Conceptual elements and analysis of socio-economic issues
1. Food and nutrition security
2. The Orthodox vision: the promotion of free trade in food goods
3. The heterodox vision: the food autonomy approach
Food resilience, an adapted response in an island environment
1. Food and nutritional security in small island territories
2. Island food resilience, a relocation issue
3. Island food resilience, a way to fight once morest food insecurity
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The health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and the current war in Ukraine have called into question food security in the world. The confinement, accompanied by situations of partial or total unemployment, pushed a certain number of households into precariousness, which led to an increase in the number of people requesting food aid, whereas a year earlier, the social crisis of the yellow vests (2018-2019) had already exposed a significant segment of the population to economic vulnerability. The increase in oil prices from 2021 following the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine will increase the cost of agricultural production and threaten the food security of millions of people (FAO, 2022). Resilience, understood as the dynamic capacity to achieve food and nutritional security objectives despite disturbances and shocks, has therefore become a fundamental issue in our societies. Two economic streams…
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Adele BrialSylvia FerrariSandrine Gombert-Courvoisier and Jean-Francois Habits, “Food resilience in an island environment Between food autonomy and free trade”, rural economy382 | 2022, 133-145.
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Adele BrialSylvia FerrariSandrine Gombert-Courvoisier and Jean-Francois Habits, “Food resilience in an island environment Between food autonomy and free trade”, rural economy [En ligne], 382 | October-December 2022, posted on January 01, 2025consulted the January 27, 2023. URL : DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/economierurale.10828
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