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From Self-Sufficiency to Food Security. Notes on the Swiss Experimental Heritage

2019
Talks

Abstract

Through this lecture Elena Cogato Lanza presents the Swiss Plan Wahlen, a regime of intensive food production and food rationing, introduced during the Second World War in an effort to increase food self-sufficiency of the nation. The talk establishes a degree of symmetry between the historical struggle for food self-sufficiency and the contemporary effort to achieve food security. Elena Cogato Lanza identifies three points on an « active » heritage, and it shows how in her current research activity she tries to establish new analytical and perspectival tools in approaching food security from a design and planning point of view.

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2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/a7c70476-4378-408b-ae5c-7120071361ad

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