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The #Foodbank Dilemma

When I think about foodbanks now, more than anything else, I think about Louise.* Louise was the first person I ever met who talked to me about her experiences of using a foodbank. Six months later, it is still my meeting with Louise I return to time and again. As if making sense of that meeting can somehow help me unravel all the issues that I have wrestled with in the months that have followed, as I have visited foodbanks, talked to the people who run and use them, interviewed food experts, and read books, reports and articles, trying to understand the foodbank phenomenon.

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De jeunes agriculteurs lancent leur épicerie locale et participative
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Quatre jeunes agriculteurs bretons ont imaginé un concept d’épicerie locale paysanne et collaborative : Élocop. Regroupés au sein d’une association, ils proposent des produits locaux, garantis sans OGM et sans antibiotiques, issus de filières de production durable. En attendant l’ouverture du magasin, courant 2016, qui sera le premier de ce type dans le Pays de Morlaix, ils confectionnent, deux fois par semaine, des paniers de légumes, de viandes, de fromages. Reportage en partenariat avec le (...)

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/ Agriculture , #Société_de_consommation, #Bretagne, #Agriculture_biologique, #Alimentation, Medias de proximité, (...)

#Agriculture_biologique #Medias_de_proximité #Eco-Bretons

Une session de formation
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Hier, j’ai assisté à une présentation d’un programme de « sagesse spirituelle », qui s’adresse aux générations de troisième âge. Non pas que je me considère déjà à ce point là de ma vie, mais parce que mon dernier client en date était le présentateur, et que j’aime bien comprendre ce qui est derrière les attentes en termes de site web, qui sont les cibles, et de quoi on parle.

Le programme propose un #changement de paradigme tandis que nous vieillissons et invite à voir cette phase de la vie à travers un glissement d’activités, empreintes de la sagesse de transmettre et de continuer à apprendre et servir les autres, comme étant aussi la source de jouvence.

Je dois dire que le fringant octogénaire qu’est mon client est un bel exemple de la mise en oeuvre d’une bien belle philosophie et pratique (...)

#West_Side_Stories #alimentation #apprentissage #petits_bonheurs #vieillesse

Food and biopolitics : some literature

Bobrow-Strain, Aaron (2013) White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

Bobrow-Strain, Aaron White bread bio-politics: purity, health, and the triumph of industrial baking Cultural Geographies January 2008 vol. 15 no. 1 19-40

Carney, Megan A. 2014. The biopolitics of ’food insecurity’: towards a critical political ecology of the body in studies of women’s transnational migration. Journal of Political Ecology 21: 1-18

Cloke, J. (2013) Empires of Waste and the Food Security Meme, Geography Compass 7/9 (2013): 622–636.

D Maye, J Kirwan (YEAR) Food security: A fractured consensus Journal of Rural Studies 29, 1-6

Emel, J, and Neo, H eds. Political Ecologies of Meat. Routledge, 2015.

Essex, Jamey. 2012. Idle Hands are the Devil’s Tools: The Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Hunger. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 102, No. 1

Gibson, Kristina E. & Dempsey, Sarah E. (2015) Make good choices, kid: biopolitics of children’s bodies and school lunch reform in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution children geographies Volume 13, Issue 1, 2015

Goodman Michael K. and Sage, Colin (Eds.) Food Transgressions. Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics

Goodman, D. (1999) Agro-Food Studies in the ‘Age of Ecology’: Nature, Corporeality, Bio-Politics Sociologia Ruralis Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 17–38, January 1999

Goodman, M. K. (2015) Afterword: the everyday biopolitics of care-full eating. In: Abbots, E., Lavis, A. and Attala, L. (eds.) Careful Eating: Embodied Entanglements Between Food and Care. Ashgate, Farnham. ISBN 9781472439482

Goodman, M. K. (2015) Technicolor foods: the everyday biopolitics of Cuba. Dialogues in Human Geography, 5 (2). pp. 243-246. ISSN 2043-8214) doi: 10.1177/2043820615586690

Guthman, J, and DuPuis, M (2006) “Embodying neoliberalism: economy, culture, and the politics of fat.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24.3: 427-448.

Guthman, J. (2009) Teaching the Politics of Obesity: Insights into Neoliberal Embodiment and Contemporary Biopolitics Antipode Volume 41, Issue 5, pages 1110–1133

Heynen, Nik. 2008. Bringing the body back to life through Radical Geography of Hunger: The haymarket affair and its aftermath. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol. 7 (No. 1), pp. 32-44

Holloway L (2015) Biopower and an ecology of genes: seeing livestock as meat via genetics. In: Emel J and Neo H (eds) Political Ecologies of Meat. London, Earthscan, pp.178-194

Holloway L and Morris C (2012) Contesting genetic knowledge-practices in livestock breeding: biopower, biosocial collectivities and heterogeneous resistances. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 60-77

Holloway L, Bear C and Wilkinson K (2013) Re-capturing bovine life: robot-cow relationships, freedom and control in dairy farming. Journal of Rural Studies

Kurtz Hilda E. (2015) Scaling Food Sovereignty: Biopolitics and the Struggle for Local Control of Farm Food in Rural Maine, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105:4, 859-873, DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1022127

Le Heron, R., Campbell, H., Lewis, N., & Carolan, M. (Eds.). (2016). Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers. Routledge.

MacAuslan, Ian. 2009. Hunger, Discourse and the Policy Process: How do conceptualizations of the Problem of ‘Hunger’ affect its measurement and solution? European Journal of Development Research. Vol. 21., No. 3. pp. 397-418

Mansfield, B. (2012) Gendered biopolitics of public health: regulation and discipline in seafood consumption advisories Environment and Planning D: Society and Space volume 30, pages 588 – 602.

Mansfield, B. (2012) Race and the new epigenetic biopolitics of environmental health BioSocieties Vol. 7, 4, 352–372.

Mansfield, B. (2012)Environmental Health as Biosecurity: “Seafood Choices,” Risk, and the Pregnant Woman as Threshold Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5), pp.969-976.

Morris C and Holloway L (2013) Genetics and livestock breeding in the UK: co-constructing technologies and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities. Journal of Rural Studies

Nally, David (2011) The biopolitics of food provisioning, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 36, Issue 1, pages 37–53

Nally, David P. (2011) Human encumbrances: political violence and the Great Irish Famine. 2011.

Peet, R., Robbins P. and Watts, M (2011) Global Political Ecology

Roe, E. (2006) Material Connectivity, the Immaterial and the Aesthetic of Eating Practices: An Argument for How Genetically Modified Foodstuff Becomes Inedible Environ Plan A vol. 38 no. 3 465-481

Roe, E. and Buser, M. (2016) Becoming ecological citizens:connecting people through performance art, food matter and practices Cultural Geographies1–18

Sharp, G. (forthcoming) chapter on food and metabolic rift in James Ormrod (Ed.) Changing Our Environment Changing Ourselves, Palgrave

Slocum, R. and Saldhana, A. (eds.) Geographies of Race and Food, Routledge.

Smoyer Amy B. (2016) Making Fatty Girl Cakes - Food and Resistance in a Women’s Prison, The Prison Journal vol. 96 no. 2 191-209

Smoyer Amy B. and Blankenshipb Kim M. (2014) Dealing food: Female drug users’ narratives about food in a prison place and implications for their health Int J Drug Policy 25(3): 562–568.

Smoyer, Amy B. Prison Food Bibliography ▻http://www.amysmoyer.com/prison-food-biblio

Twine, Richard (2010) Animals as Biotechnology:" Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies". Routledge.

Vernon, James. 2007. Hunger: A Modern History. Harvard University Press

Winter, M. (2005) Geographies of food: agro-food geographies - food, nature, farmers and agency

Worby, E. (1994) ‘Maps, names and Ethnic Games: The Epistemology and Iconography of Colonial Power in North western Zimbabwe’, Journal of Southern African Studies 20, 3: 371-392

Worby, E. (1995) ‘What does agrarian wage labour signify?: Cotton, commoditization and social form in Gokwe, Zimbabwe’ Journal of Peasant Studies 23, 1: 1-29

Worby, E. (1998a) ‘Tyranny, parody, and ethnic polarity: Ritual engagements with the state in Northwestern Zimbabwe’ Journal of Southern African Studies 24, 3: 561-578

Worby, E. (1998b) ‘Inscribing the State at the “edge of beyond”: danger and development in north-western Zimbabwe’ Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21: 55-70

Worby, E. (2000) ‘ ‘Discipline without oppression’: sequence, timing and marginality in Southern Rhodesia’s post-war development regime’ Journal of African History 41, 1: 101-125

#alimentation #biopolitique #articles_scientifiques #nourriture #agriculture

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#Marginalité, #vulnérabilité et pratiques de #survie en période de soudure alimentaire
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De quoi l’orange est-il le nom et de quoi la carotte est-elle la couleur :)

Why the Carrot is Orange : Blame the Prince of Orange - Tested
▻http://www.tested.com/science/43812-the-crazy-history-of-the-orange-carrot

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“Almost all citrus fruit is derived from a common ancestor that first evolved in southern China about 20 million years ago,” Stepahin explained. “By the year zero, oranges in particular were known in India where they were known by the sanskrit word naranga. The prefix ’nar’ I believe means aroma, and it should be known that back then oranges weren’t eaten as food. They were just used for their aromatic properties.”

The orange traveled west and was called the narang in Persia. When the fruit arrived in France, it may have been pronounced un naranj, which doesn’t sound very different than un aranj. Linguists actually believe the “n” from the front of the word was lost due to confusion with the preceding indefinite article, “at which point the French presumably misassociated that first syllable with their word for gold, or, leading to the modern orange,” Stepahin said.

“What this etymology tell us is that the color was named after the fruit, and not the other way around. If you go back far enough in the literature, you can find really weird passages like one from Canterbury Tales where Chaucer describes someone’s complexion as being ’between a red and a yellow.’”

The fruit is responsible for naming the color, but we’re still not to the reason virtually all carrots are orange. Things just get more mixed up from here.

A town in Southern France, Arausio, founded by the Romans in 35 BC, was classically pronounced “Aurenja.” Predictably, that became “orange” once the French conflated naranj with or. When a man named William the Silent from Nassau inherited the rule in Orange in 1544, he became William of Orange. He led the Dutch in Revolt against the Spanish in the late 1500s, and they eventually won their independence in the form of the Dutch Republic.

“Back then the Dutch were known as carrot farmers,” Stepahin continued. “You could get their carrots in white or yellow or purple. Then in the 17th century a breed of carrot was developed that had a lot of beta-Carotene and was orange. And the Dutch started growing this in great abundance in tribute to William of Orange to such a degree that almost all other forms of carrot had gone out of mass agricultural production...in this very roundabout way our carrots are orange because our oranges are orange, and they’ve been that way for political reasons.”

#orange #carotte #légumes #histoire #alimentation

EVGA vous offre Grey Goo Definitive Edition avec certains de ses blocs d’alimentation SuperNOVA
▻http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/actus/alimentations/31176-evga-vous-offre-grey-goo-definitive-edition-avec-certains-d

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Si l’on a l’habitude de voir les constructeurs offrir un jeu avec une carte graphique ou un processeur, ils n’ont pas l’exclusivité du genre comme nous le prouve EVGA aujourd’hui. Tout acheteur d’un bloc d’alimentation éligible de chez eux se verra offrir le jeu de stratégie Grey Goo dans sa Definitive Edition (comprenant son DLC Emergence Campaign et sa bande originale)... [Tout lire]

#Alimentations

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BeQuiet ! Pure Power 9 CM, alimentation entrée de gamme, mais avec un certain standing
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Et hop, une nouvelle fournée de blocs d’alimentation chez BeQuiet ! avec la mise à jour des Pure Power 9 CM, dont le nom à rallonge ne les empêche pas de faire partie de l’entrée de gamme du constructeur. Quatre blocs semi-modulaires de 400W, 500W, 600W et 700W qui s’accompagnent d’une certification 80PLUS Silver et viennent remplacer la précédente gamme... [Tout lire]

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Actualité > La pire sécheresse depuis 900 ans en cause dans les conflits du Moyen-Orient
▻http://www.futura-sciences.com/magazines/environnement/infos/actu/d/climatologie-pire-secheresse-depuis-900-ans-cause-conflits-moyen-or

La pire sécheresse depuis 900 ans en cause dans les conflits du Moyen-Orient

Une étude de la Nasa qui s’est intéressée à l’histoire climatique du bassin méditerranéen et à la variabilité de ses épisodes de sécheresse montre que celle ayant touché le Proche-Orient entre 1998 et 2012 fut la pire depuis le XIIe siècle. Pour les chercheurs, le réchauffement climatique l’a probablement accentuée, comme le prédisent les modèles.

un autre fléau en #syrie et dans la région

Le fructose, un additif problématique ?
▻https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/billets/le-fructose-un-additif-problematique

Tandis que le sucre est soupçonné de jouer un rôle dans l’épidémie d’obésité, des chercheurs dénoncent les dangers de l’utilisation de plus en plus massive de sirop de fructose-glucose par l’industrie alimentaire. Les explications de la biologiste Anne-Françoise Burnol.

Un #bio de plus en plus industriel à éviter

Près de la moitié des produits bio sont à présent vendus en grandes surfaces. L’entrée de la grande distribution dans le marché du bio a entraîné une course à la baisse des prix. Tous les géants, y compris les hard discounters ont créé leurs propres gammes. Pour obtenir des prix cassés, les supermarchés ont souvent recours à des importations massives provenant d’exploitations industrielles. Alors que le bio cherchait à assurer un bon équilibre entre environnement, économie et social, ces exploitations sacrifient l’aspect social. Il n’y a pas de place pour les productions saisonnières. Les entreprises commercialisent des tomates, poivrons et concombres bio toute l’année. L’hiver arrivé, ces produits sont en concurrence directe avec les produits des serres bio d’Italie, des Pays-Bas, du Maroc et d’Israël… Nous importons plus de la moitié des fruits et légumes bio consommés en France, car la production nationale est encore insuffisante.

▻http://www.natura-sciences.com/agriculture/bio-industriel-supermarches.html
#agriculture #bio_industriel