Moroccan Food Habits and Climat Change
Several sociological studies have proven the slowness of the transformation linked to food habits, particularly for traditional societies, so that, for example, in Morocco, we find current food habits mentioned in research dating back several centuries (the unknown Morocco of MOLERAS), but the characteristic of stability of Moroccan food habits applies almost only at the level of food habit Structure: while these habits undergo a radical change at the level of quality and quantity, as being a fundamental condition to achieve food security.
Climate change is perhaps considered the main factor behind the change in dietary habits, also given that dietary behavior is considered a cause of climate change as it contributes up to 20% of global warming, in the more food production is negatively affected by the environmental determinant, as is the case with climate change, which is linked to production conditions at the level of soil and water quality and food production chains.
Through sociological field research that I carried out in the city of Marrakech on the relationship between eating behaviors and climate change, we identified that social representations of climate change linked to food require the simplification of the notion of climate change, which is usually confused with changing weather conditions. We also found that the stage that contributes the most to climate change is the stage of the food supply where food and energy are wasted.
Through our intervention, we intend to present more results related to field research in which more than 1,500 questionnaires were distributed relating to dietary habits in relation to climate change in Morocco.