gaspillage alimentaire | Arash Derambarsh, Docteur en Droit PhD in Law et élu de Courbevoie

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Discours d’Arash Derambarsh au TEDx Los Angeles devant 3000 personnes au Dolby Theatre (Hollywood Boulevard).

Arash Derambarsh shares in this talk how he identified the cause of food waste in his native France, and after many efforts managed to get a law adopted forcing supermarkets to donate unwanted food to charity.

His talk is a personal narrative of how he came to realize the paradox of food waste and hunger and to understand what hunger meant.

Arash Derambarsh is a councilor in France, whose campaign against food waste led to a law forcing French supermarkets to donate unwanted food to charity has set his sights on getting similar legislation passed globally.

Arash Derambarsh declares it “scandalous and absurd” that food is wasted and in some cases deliberately spoiled while the homeless, poor and unemployed go hungry.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Arash Derambarsh was classified in the 100 world personalities of the year 2016 by the magazine Foreign Policy.

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Le magazine américain « Foreign Policy » (groupe Washington Post) classe Arash Derambarsh dans les 100 personnalités mondiales de l’année 2016.

Le très sérieux journal récompense ainsi le conseiller municipal « Les Républicains » de Courbevoie pour son travail sur le gaspillage alimentaire et son combat contre la faim et la soif.

ARASH DERAMBARSH – COUNCILMAN, COURBEVOIE/FRANCE

France trashes roughly 15 billion pounds of food annually. Arash Derambarsh, a councilman in the city of Courbevoie, says that figure is “scandalous and absurd”—particularly because 12 percent of France’s population suffers from food insecurity. Derambarsh and volunteers started distributing food discarded by stores to needy people, and he circulated a petition demanding that the national government scale up his effort, which garnered 200,000 signatures. Derambarsh succeeded: As of February, a law—the first of its kind anywhere—bars supermarkets from tossing food before it expires, instead compelling them to donate it or face a 3,750 euro fine (around $4,000). Derambarsh wants the policy implemented across Europe. In a video message, he urged U.S. President Barack Obama to enact similar legislation.

NOTABLE FACTS :

Arash Derambarsh received his Ph.D. in law from the Sorbonne in Paris.