Hunger explained?

I feel quite optimistic about the future of pessimism (Jean Rostand).

Our objective

The ambition of this site, created in June 2013, is to try and inform on food and agricultural issues and to debunk related myths so that the citizens of the XXIst century that we are, are able to better understand the world around us and act in order to change it and make a reality of the utopia of a sustainable world without hunger. [read more]

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Acknowledgements

hungerexplained.org would like to thank all those who provided their support and encouragement, particularly Andrew MacMillan, Jomo K. Sundaram, Jocelyne Récalde, George-André Simon, Hélène Basquin, Andrée-Anne Côté-St-Laurent, Byron Ponce-Segura, Zeina Abadleh, Mathias Maetz, Maria-Grazia Quieti, Coumba Sow, Frédéric Dévé, Jacques Du Guerny and Marie-Christine Tarby.

Opinions expressed here, unless otherwise specified, as well as errors are the responsibility of hungerexplained.org.

Hungerexplained.org is an autonomous and entirely independent website based on volunteer work.

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Vengeances Romaines

Materne Maetz’ novel

(in French)

Two years after the Food Systems Summit: plenty of rhetoric and meetings, very few tangible results

While all stakeholders are kept busy with complex and time-consuming processes, a transition already moves forward quietly that leads us into a world where inequalities will be growing inexorably.   [read]

Obesity is on the rise everywhere in the world

Obesity has become a major global challenge with considerable negative impact on health and life expectancy.

[read]

Climate: global concern and inaction, as COP 28 Dubai is at hand

Climate degradation, increasing impacts of climate change and incapacity demonstrated by humanity to act in order to reduce GHG emissions, make up the context of COP28.

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Energy and Food

Energy and Food are closely interlinked.

What are these linkages? What implications for the transition towards less energy-intensive, more sustainable and more climate-friendly food systems?

[read]

Opinions: Reflections on food, power, poverty and resilience in the face of global catastrophic risks

by Geoff Tansey

Ensuring resilience of our food systems in the face of global catastrophic risks will require that we change our view about how the world works, so as to be able to modify the way we run it.[read]

Opinions: ‘Natural meat’ and futurist fantasies?

by Maria Grazia Quieti

Cultured meat, as one of the new alternative protein technologies, between scared defensive postures, vested interests and promissory narratives.

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The food situation in the Sahel is deteriorating (New)

Despite a growing agricultural production, the number of people in a situation of food insecurity requiring serious assistance jumped from 4 million to nearly 32 million in 5 years.

[read]

In the heart of the global economic system: the protection of intellectual property rights (New)

The explosion of legal instruments for the protection of intellectual property rights, at the end of the 20th century, triggered a radical transformation of the global economy, the impacts of which are of serious concern.

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Opinions : ‘Developing countries’, a convenient and resilient fiction? by Materne Maetz  (New)

An analysis of country performances in the economic, health, education, undernourishment, poverty, energy, communications and social protection fields helps to give an answer to this question.    [read]