The study analyzes options for implementing the Plant Treaty's multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing in Rwanda. The study includes an overview of a range of pre-existing Rwandan national policies and laws that are of potential relevance when developing a strategy for implementing the...

The aim of this text is to analyze socially innovative experiences aiming at combating food insecurity. It addresses alternative collective actions to dominant food systems triggering social innovations in precarious neighborhoods. Arguing that these systems are important causes of food...

To ensure sustainable food security, it is imperative to consider the legal instruments for the promotion and protection of agricultural and food diversity. This is the mission of the Research Chair in Law on Food Diversity and Food Security at Laval University (DDSA Chair) since its creation in...

This paper analyzes the trajectories of public policy in Nicaragua in order to question institutional changes and their effectiveness. Based on combined approaches (sociohistory of public action, historical institutionalism, implementation), the paper deciphers evolutions in agricultural and food...

This special issue contains 11 articles that discuss the challenges and opportunities of food governance, with a focus on promoting sustainable territorial food systems and ensuring food security. The articles cover a range of topics, including citizen participation in food governance, the...

In the Diffa region of Niger, a security crisis linked to the jihadist group Boko Haram has been superimposed on a structurally deficient food situation due to strong demographic growth in an arid zone, leading to massive population displacement and a major humanitarian crisis on a regional scale....

The previous edition of this report (2017) showed that the failures of the fight against world hunger were closely linked to the exacerbation of conflicts and violence in different parts of the world. It was also noted that in some countries, baseline data suggested that climate-related events have ...

The right to Adequate Food Supply and Food Sovereignty carry alternative frames of reference against the liberal contents of the national and international policies set up since the end of 1980s (liberalization of the agrarian markets, privatization of means, withdrawal of States). They have...

In 2001, about 56,000 adults were estimated to be food insecure in Sacramento County (California, USA). This number tends to keep rising even though several federal food assistance programmes are available to the low-income population. The objectives of our study were to describe the population...

Although agricultural productivity is often associated with food security, the interlinkages between agricultural productivity and food insecurity are less explored. The objective of this research is to analyse the interlinkages between agricultural productivity and food insecurity. It is based on...